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Be The Church: February 27, 2023

We hope you'll join us this Sunday as we continue our Lenten series, "Seeking: Honest Questions for Deeper Faith." This week's question is, "How do we begin again?" 

Check out all we have going on this week below, and don't forget to join us on Saturday for the Gardening For Life Project. We're so excited!

Please find more information below about:
- Gardening For Life Project: This Saturday!
- Getting To Know Us (Again): Sign-up.
- Game Night: March 11
Ministry Team, Worship, & Volunteer Sign-Up: Ushers needed
Pic of the Week: Fat Ash Wednesday
Weekly Preview: Attic Cleanup. Feed A Kid Team Meeting
- Notes From The Church Dog: Congregational Church Follies!
Love Your Neighbor: No more stigma
Faith Formation Opportunities & UCC News: Film screening

You can find recordings of this past Sunday's worship services on our website and YouTube page. You can also support the ministries of our church, by giving online, or mailing in your contribution. Let us be the church as we love and serve our neighbors.
 
Faithfully,
Pastor Meghan
Gardening For Life Project
This Saturday, March 4, 2023, 1-5 PM, at Polk County High School
Join us, along with partner organizations, for a creation care festival featuring Doug Tallamy. The keynote will be livestreamed, for those unable to get tickets.

- Native Plant Sales begin at 12:30
- Educational Exhibits, Book Sales and Plant Sales: 1:00 - 2:00
- Doug Tallamy’s Presentation: 2:00 - 3:30
- Educational Exhibits, Book Sales/Signings, Plant Sales: 3:30-5
For more information, go to www.gardeningforlifeproject.org.
Link to view the livestream
Getting To Know Us (Again): Round 2
Dates & Times Vary

Lent is a time to renew our connections to God and each other. This Lenten season we are asking all of our church members and friends to sign up for one 75 minute gathering at the church. We'll gather in small groups to get to know each other by answering 3 simple questions.

Click here to sign-up
Game Night
Saturday, March 11th at 5 PM
Join us for dinner and some friendly competition. Bring your favorite game! Free will offering for dinner.
Click here to sign-up
Ministry Team, Worship, & Volunteer Sign-Up
We welcome all in our congregation, regardless of membership or age, to participate in worship leadership and Ministry Teams. Contact the church office for more information about any of the opportunities below.
Please consider signing up to usher, serve as liturgist, and host community hour in the coming months. Offering those gifts of hospitality helps build community, attracts and welcomes folks to our church.
Pic of the Week
A look into the life of the church

We had a fantastic time at our Fat Ash Wednesday Pancake Supper last week enjoying delicious food, playing bingo, and tossing pancakes for our pancake games. The fun was followed by our Ash Wednesday service to transition us into Lent. Thank you to Doug Lyon, who ran the griddle producing piles of pancakes, as well as Carolyne and Neil Rostick, Lauren Winterrowd, Elena Greve, and Abby and Ian Lewis, who helped set up and worked in the kitchen. 

Do you have a picture of something that you would like to share with the Congregation? Email it to Lindsay and we can share it as our pic of the week and continue to stay connected with each other. 
Weekly Preview
Grow in faith, share in ministry.
  • Community Hours
    Community Hours this week will be Wednesday from 9-10 AM at All Good Things Bakery in Tryon.
     
  • Prayer GroupWednesdays at 12 PM on Zoom
    Click this link to join Prayer Group
    Meeting ID: 396 479 012, Password: 117851
    To join by phone, dial +1 646 558 8656.
    Join us as we pray for the congregation, the community, and the world.
     
  • Feed A Kid Team Meeting
    Thursday, March 2, 11:30 AM in the church parlor
    Join the Feed A Kid team for their seasonal kickoff meeting. If you can't make the, don't worry, we can still use your help!  Just let us know you're interested. Contact Amy Correll for more information.
     
  • Attic Clean-Up
    Saturday, March 4, 10 AM in the church offices.
    Join us as we clean out and organize the church attic. Contact Ginny Rostick for more information.
     
  • Gardening For Life Project
    Saturday, March 4, 1-5 PM at Polk County High School
    See details above.
     
  • Sunday Worship: Lent 2 - March 5 at 10 AM, Sanctuary & Online
    Join us for worship, story, music, and fellowship. The Sunday email will have links to watch the service online via live streamThis week's scripture lessons are Genesis 12:1-4a and John 3:1-17
Looking Ahead:
  • Kudzu Eradication
    March 11, 10 AM, Back Parking Lot
    Join us to rework the area from last year and remove any debris possible. Were identifying natives and restoring our historic woodlands. Invite all  you know to help.  It is a wonderful donation to God's world. Contact Carol Meeske for more information.
     
  • Game Night
    Saturday, March 11th at 5 PM
    See details above.
     
  • Joy & Justice Book Club
    Sundays, March 12 & 19 after worship
    Join us for a discussion of the book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,  Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer. As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together to show that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learning to give our own gifts in return. There is also a Young Adult version also available for discussion with youth.  Sign up online
Notes From The Church Dog
Because somebody has to run this church...
There was so much going on at the church this past week, that I decided to turn my column over to covering our first annual church variety show, "The Congregational Church Follies". Lent is about connection, and our variety show was all about building community. It was such a talented group! There were singers, poets, comedians, instrumentalists, and storytellers. Thank you Dr. Lyle and Patty Short for organizing! And, thank your to our performers for being so willing to share your gifts. It was truly a fun-filled Sunday afternoon.
 
Wishing you all the toys and pets,
Wally
Love Your Neighbor
Wider Community Opportunities, Events, and Resources
No More Stigma, No More Shame #standbymePolk
April 28. 4:30PM - 7:30PM
Join us for an exciting evening as we welcome nationally acclaimed TEDx speaker Tony Hoffman to Polk County to share his inspirational true story "From Prison to the Olympics," about overcoming and recovery from substance misuse.

*Hosted by Polk County Health and Human Services Agency in partnership with Polk County Schools.
Find more information here

Hear of any community gatherings, resources, or opportunities to love our neighbors? Email us to share.
Faith Formation Opportunities & UCC News
Staying connected to the wider church.
Click here to sign-up for WNCA email updates.
Movie Screening: The Ants and the Grasshopper
March 1, 2023 at 7:00 PM 
Join us online for a free screening of an acclaimed documentary that follows the life of the inspiring Anita Chitaya. After successfully confronting challenge after challenge in her home country of Malawi, Chitaya comes to the United States faced with the most difficult task of her life. In order to save her home from extreme weather, she seeks to persuade people in the United States that climate change is real. The film documents her efforts as she travels around the country from California to the White House to engage everyone from climate skeptics to despairing farmers.

The documentary has received numerous film festival awards and accolades. Journalist Michael Pollen declared that he was “blown away” by this powerful film about “a hero of such grace and intelligence and power.”

This event is cohosted by the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Green Chalice Ministries, the Environmental Justice Ministries of the United Church of Christ, and Blessed Tomorrow. Register here.

Create Playspace with the President Series
On Wednesdays from February through May, UCC President, Rev. John Dorhauer has arranged eight different conversations, each with a unique topic and facilitator.
The next discussion topic will be: 
Is property a missional asset or a liability?
March 1st at 1 pm 
Register here

WNCA Spring Educational Forum
Click here to register

EMAIL

Rev. Meghan D. Young, Pastor - pastor@ucctryon.org
Lindsay Lewis, Minister of Faith Formation - faithformation@ucctryon.org
Dr. Susan Lyle, Minister of Music - music@ucctryon.org
Brittany Plumley, Custodian - custodian@ucctryon.org
Michele Brulé, Church Administrator - accounts@ucctryon.org
General Office/Church Requests can be sent to: church@ucctryon.org
 

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