Dedicated church member Max M. likes to work with his hands. He is helping First Church Phoenix reduce costs as they navigate the use of their current building while waiting for a new church home. He has even assembled a mighty team of helpers! Yay, Max!
A special Ecumenical Maundy Thursday service will be held on March 28 at Desert Garden UCC located at 18818 N 128th Ave., Sun City West. United Church of Sun City, Church of the Palms UCC and Sun City Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) will be participating in the service.
As migrants from ‘all over the world’ enter U.S., churches must go to meet them, says Church of the Good Shepherd Pastor Randy Mayer. Pastor Randy has made the UCC News Digest website! Read what he has to say.
United Church of Santa Fe collected $1,800 and children, youth and adults assembled nearly 100 hygiene kits for use in Ukraine and Gaza. This is just the first round and another collection will follow soon.
Casas Adobes UCC will be hosting a Civic Academy on Saturday, April 20th from 1-3pm. It is presented by Pima County Interfaith Council on Voting: Action, Integrity, Safety. Speakers include the Pima County Recorder Gabriella Cázares-Kelly and Elections Director Constance Hargrove. Everyone interested in the voting process, including mail-in voting, and how officials maintain integrity and safety in elections is invited. The event is free but registration is required. Register now using the link on the attached event flyer.
Scottsdale UCC received a voice mail message at the church office from a neighbor, who identified herself and said she was an “atheist Jew”, but she wanted to say how much she appreciated the church’s banners showing inclusivity and love for all people. She is a hetero female with mixed race children and friends in the LGBTQ community and was glad to have the church as part of her neighborhood.
Join the Arizona Faith Network community for a webinar series engaging with a number of National and Local Faith Leaders, Historians, Museums, and Movement workers to explore the impacts of American Christian Nationalism and its impacts on this great democracy. On March 26th from 6:30-8, join Rev. Seth Wispelwey for an interactive look on Taking the Stand Against Christian Nationalism - From the Streets to the Courtroom. Rev. Wispelwey, the UCC’s Minister for Economic Justice will lead an interactive tour and discussion through the obfuscations, distractions, and dangerous code language that white nationalists use to co-opt, coerce, and commandeer “Christian” identity for the purposes of advancing supremacist violence in communities, classrooms, and Congress - and what people of bold faith and conscience can do. RSVP FOR ZOOM INFO
The Banned Book Club at Scottsdale UCC selected The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner), by Sherman Alexie as their next book to read. The next meeting with be at 5:30 pm on Monday evening, April 29th. All are welcome.
Last week, officials with the City of Albuquerque invited members of First Congregational UCC (Alb) to present at a meeting about the work their church has been doing and continues to do in helping assist asylum seekers traveling through and settling in the community.
Leave it to Pastor Paul Whitlock at Church of the Palms to close us with a smile!
What do you call a mischievous egg? A practical yolker!
Where do Easter Bunnies go for new tails? To the retail store.
What's an Easter egg's least favorite day? Fry-day.
What do you call a line of rabbits walking backward? A receding hare-line!
How do you get a bunny to work overtime? Simply raise its celery.
What did the rabbit say to the carrot? It was nice gnawing you.
How does the Easter Bunny keep his fur neat? Hare spray!
Why did the baby chick cross the road? To meet up with her Peeps.
What sport do you have to play on Easter? Basket-ball.
What did one Easter egg say to the other Easter egg? Look at your dye job!
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