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Stephen Ministry Informational Meeting May 30

Ever wondered about becoming a Stephen Minister?? Here’s how to learn more: Attend the Stephen Ministry Informational Meeting on Wednesday, May 30th from 7:00 to 8:30 pm at the First United Methodist Church, 1224 Legion Way SE Olympia in the Gathering Room.

A panel of Stephen Ministry leaders from several area churches will present information and answer your questions. Hope you can make this gathering.

Contact Pat Dickason at 360 753-7647 with questions.

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Dixieland Service July 1, 10 am

Get ready to tap your toes at this year’s Dixieland service on July 1, at 10:00 am. The St. Louis Rivermen Dixieland Band will again donate their services for the full worship service, playing jazz arrangements of old Gospel and revival tunes.

The Rivermen are a featured band at the OlyJazz Society annual festival at St. Martins college on June 28-29-30 and ...

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Help with the Capital Pride Parade and Festival

The annual celebration of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender communities is coming up soon! The Festival will take place June 9-10 in Sylvester Park. The Pride Parade will occur Sunday, June 10th, starting on the Capital steps, at 12 noon. TUCO has always been a great supporter of these events and will be joining the Parade in front of the church (or on the Capital steps) after the ...

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CROP Walk Update

Way to go! With over forty walkers Sunday and donations collected to date (including online contributions), our current total is slightly in excess of $2,000. We are awaiting the submission of Walker/Sponsor envelopes from (23) of you. Please try to finish you’re your collections as soon as possible. We will have our CROP Walk table in the narthex this Sunday (May 13). If you wish, you may leave ...

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SAVE THE DATE:TUCO Parking Lot Sale July 7

TUCO’s Parking Lot Sale will be held on Saturday, July 7.

Please start putting aside any items you wish to donate to our annual parking lot sale.

If you wish to volunteer to help set up or sell or clean up on that day please contact Deb Nickerson at debranick@gmail.com

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Community Soup Kitchen

Your help always welcomed: Meet on the second Tuesday of each month, 2pm-6 pm. at the Salvation Army. May 8th, June 12th, July 10th, Aug. 14th.

Contact: Barbara Mclean - 360-352-8659 or Bill Edmundson – 360-491-8964 to see how you can help.

More information

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Little Red Schoolhouse Upcoming Events

Shop for your Mother for Mother’s day at Chico’s on May 12, mention the Little Red Schoolhouse and Chic’s will donate 10% of the purchase price to the Little Schoolhouse.

A fund raisier for the Little Red Schoolhouse will be held May 17 ,4 pm – 7 pm catered by Marv’s Marvlus Bar-B-Q at the Olympia – Lacey Church of God, corner Lacey Blvd.& Ruddell. It will be a Pulled Pork sandwich, cole slaw.

baked beans, & beverage for $10. Eat in ...

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CROP Walk May 6

Just one week now! Our Crop Walk is next Sunday, May 6.

Three reasons demonstrate why this is a significant event in the life and mission of our church:

(1) Our contributions, offered as a matter of faith, make possible life-changing projects overseas

(2) One quarter of our donations stay “at home” for the benefit of proven programs (e.g., the Thurston County Food Bank, the Olympia Baptist Sunday Dinner for our disadvantaged residents, the Out of the Woods shelter for families, and our ...

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Introducing: The Monthly Voice

With over a decade in publication The Voice, the newsletter from TUCO, will become a monthly publication! We hope this change will bring with it a higher level of content to the newsletter including notes from the Pastor’s desk, regular updates from each of the church’s ministry committees, and interesting faith-focused articles from you the reader! You can submit an article to be published in The Voice by emailing it to voice@theunitedchurches. org by the 4^th Monday of ...

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Pentecost Sunday, May 27 Special Offering

Each year, on Pentecost Sunday, we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit as a bringer of new life. With the Spirit’s coming, we can know the transforming, redeeming love of God that makes the impossible possible.

On Pentecost Sunday each of our denominations collects a special offering.

The UCC offering, Strengthen the Church, funds new congregations and renews existing ones. It supports programs for youth and young adults and nurtures ...