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Fantastic! Great Fun! All Church Retreat

Fantastic! Great fun! That’s what one person had to say about last year’s church retreat.  Others said they liked: the people; fellowship; laughter; time to get acquainted with others; free time; quite time; game time; activities; singing; vespers; the food; flashlight tag; crafts; the Talent/No Talent show; swimming; canoeing; the outdoors, the weather….

This year’s All Church Retreat, “An Altar in the Woods,” promises to be all that and more. You do as much or as little as you want, but you ...

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Categories: Family Programs, News and Events, Retreats, Special Events

Another Great CROP Walk

ending-hungerNot all of the Thurston County CROP Hunger Walk donations for this year are in yet, but it looks like another great year.  We appear to be on track to raise about $45,000.  It will be a couple of months before we know how much will come from the Feinstein Foundation as a partial match for the funds turned in by April 30.  There were approximately 450 walkers and ...

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Categories: Caring Community, News and Events, Serving the Community, Special Events, Volunteers

Pictures from Elsa’s Installation

Here is a link to some photos taken by Russ Rose of Elsa’s Installation on May 19, 2013

Enjoy !!  It was an exciting day.

Pictures of Elsa’s installationt: http://www.pbase.com/whiterosephoto/tucoelsa1

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Categories: News and Events, Presbyterian Denomination, Special Events, Special Worship Services, UCC Denomination

Planning for Capitol City Pride

Planning for Capitol City Pride

Capitol City Pride is being planned for Saturday June 22 for a ONE DAY Festival & Parade.

Want to bring your faith and love of LGBT folks into this community-wide event? A booth and a spot in the parade have been reserved. Now, all we need is you!

Join us on Tuesday May 28 for a one-hour planning and brainstorming meeting at 5:30 pm in Room 106.

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Categories: News and Events, Special Events

Invitation to Elsa’s Installation

The Pacific Northwest Conference of the United Church of Christ and United Churches of Olympia invite your presence and prayers for the Installation of Elsa A. Peters as Pastor to the congregation on Sunday May 19, 2013 at 4:00 pm.

A reception hosted by the Congregational Life Ministry will immediately follow the service.

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Categories: News and Events, Presbyterian Denomination, Special Events, UCC Denomination

Save the Date: Dixieland Jazz Worship June 30

Grand Dominion Jazz Band will appear at this year’s Dixieland Jazz worship service, June 30, at 10:00 am, in United Churches sanctuary. Members of the Worship Ministry are the hosts of the band and will be covering details of their performance here, including building logistics and local publicity.

http://gdjb.com/

The performance is a fund-raising benefit for the young musician scholarship fund 2013-dixieland-smof the Greater Olympia Jazz Society. Thank you, Grand ...

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Categories: Music, News and Events, Special Events, Special Worship Services, Worship

Educational Scholarships Benefit all Ages

The United Churches currently has two scholarship funds. The Thompson Scholarship is in memory Helen and John Thompson. The McNall Scholarship is in memory of L.D. and Mary Lee McNall.

There is one application for both which is available online in PDF format as well as instructions for completing it. Also, included online is an Introduction Letter and the complete revised Scholarship Policy and Guidelines which ...

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Categories: News and Events, Special Events

Building Through Conversation

As we imagine how to build the City of God in our church and in the world, you’re invited to join in conversation after the 10:30 am worship service. It’s a conversation with the pastor to talk about what you heard in the scripture and in the sermon. In the old days, we called this a Sermon Talkback, but in the hope that this scripture and every sermon captures our imaginations to new possibility, we’ll imagine that we’re building together.

Mark your ...

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Categories: News and Events, Sermons, Special Events

Dessert, Drama and Dollars: MPJ Fundraiser


acting-2Desserts-drama-dollarsWe need you and your talents, or lack thereof, to perform in our Talent/ No Talent show on April 20 from 7-9 pm here at The United Churches. Perform a skit, a song, a dramatic reading; recite a poem; make stellar imitations; share some bad jokes – no matter where you are on the talent continuum, you ...

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Categories: Family Programs, Mission, Peace and Justice Blog, News and Events, Serving the Community, Special Events, Special Offerings, Volunteers

All Church Retreat: An Altar in the Woods


When: August 23-25, 2013
Where: Pilgrim Firs

Altar_in_the_wo-210With Barbara Brown Taylor’s An Altar in the World as our guide, our church members and friends are invited to share in a unique retreat experience to discover the holy in our everyday lives. Inspired by these words, we will explore and discover those practices that connect us with God and with each other. We’ll experiment with ...

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Categories: News and Events, Retreats, Small Groups, Special Events, Spiritual Growth, Worship

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