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Virtual Worship
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March 7 — Third Sunday in Lent — Rev. Jennifer Whipple
Lessons from the Wilderness:
“Responsibility & Accountability”
The Israelites spent 40 years in the wilderness trying to navigate their way through to the Promised Land. They weren't just navigating to a new physical location, though, they were navigating through and to a new communal and faith landscape as well. They were learning along with one another what it meant to be a new kind of community and to follow the one God. It was countercultural then, just as our faith is countercultural today. So how did they do it? How did they know which direction to turn? How could they stay honest and true during that time of unknown and unknowing? They relied on God, their leaders, and each other to make it through with the guideposts laid out for them - signs, visions, and some very practical standards. One set of those standards was the 10 Commandments we read about in Exodus 20. What does this story have to teach us today? Come explore with Pastor Jen as she shares a message about "Responsibility & Accountability."
This is a Communion Sunday as well, so please feel free to gather whatever elements you might have available to join with us at the table of grace this week. We welcome Mary Gallagher-DeLucia as our scripture reader and Jim Sugden with a message from our Stewardship Committee. There will be a beautiful encore anthem, "Be Thou My Vision", from our Chancel Choir and lovely piano music for meditation and Communion shared by Toni Sullivan. You can also join us for our weekly Kids' Worship service with a message from Pastor Jen.
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In Person Prayer Meeting - Sunday, March 7th at 9:30am
You can register for In Person Prayer Meeting by clicking this link:

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Lenten Devotional 2021

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Pastors Fund Thanks & Information
Our pastors wish to thank you so much for your generous support of the Pastors Fund during these difficult and ever-changing times. With your help bills have been paid to cover housing costs, medical bills, and emergency repairs as well as to cover other everyday costs like food, gas, and clothing for members & friends of our church and wider community. The Pastors Fund is supported through the honorarium from the funerals/memorials that our pastors officiate, as well as through the generous gifts of members and friends of our community. The Thrift Shop has supported the Pastors Fund with gifts from sale profits, and the Pastors Fund is also one of the options for holiday support through our Virtual Giving Tree this year. If you are feeling moved to make a direct gift to the Pastors Fund, gift cards for groceries and gas are always welcome, as are donations made payable to Pastors Fund.
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Note from Stewardship Committee
We may not be meeting together these days, but your church is still here, hoping to meet people’s needs, whatever they are. We are still the church – looking for ways to be God’s hands and feet in the world around us, even when we are not together on Sunday mornings! SO….
- Utilities + office supplies = YOUR CHURCH
- Payroll + Sunday School supplies = YOUR CHURCH
- Committees + building repair = YOUR CHURCH
- Supporting needs around us + uplifting music = YOUR CHURCH
- Choirs + internet and phone service = YOUR CHURCH
Please continue to give to our special church in whatever way you were used to giving before, if you are able, so that your church will be there for you, throughout this crisis, and beyond!
Your Pastors are Here for You!
Pastoral Care Appointments


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Worship Opportunities
Friday Morning Meditation

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Labyrinth & Children's Garden:
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CHURCH OFFICE HOURS
The Church Office is generally open Monday-Thursday from 9am-1pm. If you have a need to stop by the office in person, we ask that you call ahead (203-775-1259) to ensure that Jeannine McCullough, our Office Administrator, is expecting you. Please ring the doorbell and wait for the door to be answered and plan to wear a mask when you stop by the Office.
NOTE: Our phone system also allows you to leave a private voicemail message for the Office or a member of our Church Staff, which is automatically forwarded to staff email addresses as well.
Know that "No matter who you are or where you are on life's journey, you are welcome here!"
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At Home Electronic Worship Options
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Welcome! No matter who you are, or where you are on life's journey, you are welcome here.
- Would you enjoy the guidance of fellow seekers to help you support your children's growth into strong and compassionate moral thinkers?
- Are you looking for a place where you can bring your deepest joys and sorrows and find real companionship in celebration and suffering?
- Do you long for a place where you and your family can learn to love one another and care for the world in a compassionate faith community?
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Watch this space for more information about our programs and ministries in the future.
As always, we also care about your spiritual health, so know that although your pastors are working mostly through remote connections, we want to respond to your needs and concerns promptly. Be aware, however, that may not always be possible. Our church phone system delivers your phone messages (to 203-775-1259) to our email, or you can email us directly at Bryn@uccb.org or Jennifer@uccb.org.
Let us continue to reach out to care for one another, and pray for one another and our world, as we face this global pandemic together, remembering the Apostle Paul's powerful affirmation of faith in these verses from chapter 8 of his Letter to the Romans:
31What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 35Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.