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Articles Featured
World Religions Day Celebration
Sunday, January 20, 5-7pm in Edwards Hall January 20 is World Religions Day, a celebration begun by the Baha’i community around the world to honor the beauty, richness and truths in the diverse religions of the world. Open Spirit invites you to join in an open-spirited, open-hearted dinner and open mic celebration. Bring food to […]
January Seeds of Grace Worship
Sunday, January 20 at 5:30pm in Sue Dickerman Hall On the eve of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, join us for a multi-sensory, participatory worship service, lifting up themes of racial justice and equality.
Our Little Wooden Banks
We had a donation for $10.00 in December, giving us a total now of $1199.24 in our Wooden Banks Fund. As you know this fund will be used for needs of our church which are not included in our annual budget. Please share with me or Fran Bogle any ideas you may have for putting […]
From the Chancel Committee
The Chancel Committee would like to thank all those who purchased poinsettias for this Christmas season. We were able to purchase forty-two plants to decorate the sanctuary. Cindy Booth for the Chancel Committee
Holywood Studios: It’s a Wrap!
The children, teachers, and the Board of Christian Education would like to thank you for your support of our Holywood Studios Video Pageant Premiere. We thought this year would be the year to try something new, and we learned a whole lot doing it. All of the kids had a great time putting the pageant […]
Advent Thanks!
Special thanks go out to all the musicians that helped bring so much joy to our chancel during Advent. For our first anthem of 2019 we will join forces with the choir at Plymouth Church on Epiphany. As we start the new calendar year, and approach Lent, Holy Week, and Pentecost, you might consider joining […]
Annual Reports Due
Annual Reports are due at 9:00am on Monday, January 7, 2019. Please email them to Nicola at nicola@edwardschurch.org. The Annual Meeting will take place on Sunday, February 10, after church. Childcare has been arranged.
Kermit’s Korner: Writing Workshop
Plymouth and Edwards Church Green Teams Joint Letter-to-the-Editor Writing Workshop Sunday, January 6, 11:45am-1:00pmAfter worship at Plymouth Church Fellowship HallDo you want to get more people talking about the injustice of climate change (or another justice issue)? Do you want to get the attention of local lawmakers, decision-makers, and your neighbors? Letters-to-the-editor are a great […]
Socks for Epiphany
The Magi journeyed, or so we imagine, through foreign lands, deserts, forests, and over mountains. We picture them on camels, but surely some of the time they walked. Surely they needed clean socks and underwear! Remembering our friends today who may journey from place to place without a home to return to, we will receive […]
Special Epiphany Offering
The offering for our Combined Epiphany Service will be donated to the Tree for Life Project of the Organization of African Instituted Churches, in cooperation with the United Church of Christ. Members of small, independent, mostly rural churches in Kenya and Nigeria plant trees to combat desertification and drought. Phyllis Byrd, our UCC mission partner […]