The Sedona Academy of Chamber Singers, choir-in-residence at The Church of the Red Rocks and the only semi-professional choir in Northern Arizona, will share a choral concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, August 19th, at The Church of the Red Rocks, 54 Bowstring Drive, Sedona.

Admission is free.

The concert, entitled From the Heart, will feature choral settings featuring basic human emotions:  joy, sadness, anger, fear, and love.

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United Church of Santa Fe's Rev. Talitha Arnold has been asked to be a regular panelist on KSFR’s “Santa Fe Forum,” airing Mondays (6:30–7:00 pm) on 101.1 FM. To quote KSFR, the Forum is “where prominent locals discuss important issues of the day in a hard-hitting but civilized manner.”

On June 10, we observed Pride Sunday here at SCUCC: We celebrated our heritage as a UCC Open & Affirming congregation of nearly two decades, as well as our return to the Phoenix Pride festival this year, and our intention to significantly update our ONA statement in honor of its 20th birthday in October.

As Taos United Community Church prepares for our new fiscal year, we want to thank every one of you who contributed this year, with your time, with your talents, and with your money.  Taos UCC exists because of the people who’ve come together to birth and build this new faith community.

Today we are writing to ask you to take another step in your journey with Taos UCC.

On June 10th, Scottsdale Congregational UCC served a sumptuous meatloaf dinner to around 40 people at Rebel & Divine. There were visitors from Phoenix Gaymers, who helped with the program, and from Insight, who provided free HIV testing for the youth. We had seven people from SCUCC come to help serve

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The Evans Bell Conversion is making available a program of spoken word and music entitled “Meditations Traveling Towards the Setting Sun.” This performance, about 45 minutes in length, is set around a journey that was taken during the last Lenten season. This trip through South East Asia inspired this collection of work that is an attempt to intertwine the ancient rhythms of eastern religions with our own continuing exploration of spirituality in the cosmically focused 21st century.

at First Church UCC Phoenix

Spend an afternoon with the Dialogue Institute staff and SUSI scholars from around the world!

SUSI is the “Study of the U.S. Institutes for Scholars on Religious Pluralism and Democratic Values in the United States" which is sponsored by the US State Department. The Dialogue Institute, which is housed at Temple University in Philadelphia, is the organization managing the study. Eighteen scholars will be in Sedona as part of their study of U.S. history, society, and institutions through the lens of religious pluralism in the US.

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Rincon will soon be embarking on a new Ministry of Creation Care, shepherded by the Rev. Karen MacDonald, in collaboration with Rev. Dr. Delle and the Justice and Witness and Faith Development Ministry Teams. 

Mark Behle, a member of The Church of the Palms, United Church of Christ, serves the Lesotho Evangelical Church in Southern Africa. For the last few years, Mark has been working in the planning office of that church and has been involved with various projects such as the textbooks for the seminary, school furniture, and school classroom construction. Prior to that, he taught math and religion at Masitise High School for fifteen years.

After almost 27 years of serving God and The United Church of Christ in Africa, Mark is coming home. It will be good to have Mark back with us! 

Sixth Annual Morris B. Ewing Golf Tournament to support our own college scholarship fund! 

We will have lots of prizes, lots of fun, including another great lunch!

United Church featured in Yale's Institute of Sacred Music Colloquium:
As Earth Groans: Worshiping God on Holy Ground

Environmental Ethicist Larry Rasmussen, along with United staff Rev. Talitha Arnold (Yale '80) and Music Director Jacquelyn Helin are presenters at the "Congregations" colloquium of the Institute of Sacred Music of Yale Divinity School, June 13–15, in New Haven, Connecticut. 

The Healing Circle is an opportunity to experience a physical healing from Mark. For over 40 years Mark has worked with thousands of people to help free the body of distress, aches, pains or sickness. After a brief introduction and a short time for questions, each attendee will have the opportunity to request a healing or blessing.

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