During the season of Lent, First Congregational in Albuquerque will place their prayer cross in the chapel. Folks may stop by and add their prayers to the cross. Paper and pens provided. Folks can even email their prayer requests and they will be added to the cross as received.
The Worship group at Oro Valley UCC created Lenten packets for people to pick up. The packets contain:
1.The Lenten Season Schedule.
2.Jade Terry's King Cake recipe for your at-home Shrove Tuesday celebration.
3.Ashes and communion cups for the Ash Wednesday Meditative Communion Service.
(Actual ashes! Editorial comment.)
4.Copies of the reflections and prayers for the Wednesday morning devotional.
Church of the Painted Hills will provide two opportunities for receiving ashes “on the go" on Ash Wednesday. From 9:00 until 10:00 am and 4:00 to 5:00 pm, Pastor will be in the parking lot to impose ashes with a Q-Tip, while folks remain in their car. After receiving ashes, you will be given a packet of devotional materials.
What you will need to fully experience Scottsdale UCC's Ash Wednesday Service:
*A blank piece of paper
*Something to write with
*A simple flowerpot
*Enough soil to nearly fill your pot
*A seed. (SEEDS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN AN OUTSIDE BOX AT THE CHURCH)
(Hmmmm..........)
If you view the worship video at The Good Shepherd UCC in Sahuarita over the next few weeks, please take note of the quilt that is placed on the pulpit during Black History Month. Clare Renoux made this quilt from fabric she purchased that came from Rwanda. The fabric is called African wax fabric and is thought to have been created with a technique derived from Indonesian batik methods.
Casas Adobes will welcome Hailey Lyons on Feb. 22nd to lead a conversation about what a Just World For All looks like and the role of the church in living into this. Hailey is a transgender woman, living in Gilbert with her partner while she completes her MA in Social Justice and Human Rights at ASU. She joined Desert Palm UCC in 2019, where she works as a ministry partner with UCC@ASU (our new campus ministry). There, she produces a bi-monthly podcast, teaches bible study, and DMs a Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Her interests include the intersections of Social Justice, Christian Theology, Literary Criticism, and Critical Theory.
First Church Phoenix is encouraging donations to their DACA Scholarship fund to help pay for college and for DACA application fees for undocumented persons brought to the US as children. Daniel Rodriquez, a member of First Church, was one of the first recipients of this fund and is now the first undocumented attorney in AZ.
First Congregational in Albuquerque will host a Racial Justice forum on Sunday, February 21 featuring Dr. Charles E. Becknell, Jr., Chair of the Africana Studies Department at the University of New Mexico and Pastor at Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church in Rio Rancho. Attendees will learn more about African American history in New Mexico and next steps in this pursuit of justice.
Church of the Beatitudes is looking for used laptops for Maryland School. Maryland School provides educational resources for several refugee families in their community. A father from Eritrea, a country in Eastern Africa, is signing up for classes at Rio Salado Community College and is very much in need of a laptop computer in order to access his classes. He is currently using one that belongs to his teenage child, but they both need access at the same time, so it is not working out. They are a family of five people living in a small apartment, and do not have room for a regular P.C. computer. If you have a used working laptop you are no longer using or know of someone who has one to donate or would like to contribute a monetary donation to help purchase a used laptop, please contact Cathy Kim at ckim248@yahoo.com.
COVID took the life of Reverend Robert Duane Koth who was born in Slayton, MN on August 6, 1936 and died in Phoenix, AZ on January 17th, 2021
Zoom Memorial for Robert D. Koth
Saturday, February 27th 11:00 AM
Reverend Susan Valiquette
First Congregational Church UCC of Phoenix, AZ
SEE OBITUARY AND MEMORIAL DETAILS