The pandemic and its risks and challenges are clearly not over. In response to the recent spike in cases and variant infections, the Covid Team recommends the UCG community continue our vigilant efforts to stay healthy and prevent the spread …
Continue readingThe Sunday Seminar committee offers seminars around a number of exciting and relevant topics. Each is available on Zoom at 11:30am. Meeting ID: 829 6457 0385, Passcode: 1624. See August offerings below. August 8 – “Critical Race Theory: The Struggle …
Continue readingIn March 2021, Church Council approved the formation of a Compensation Task Force to create comprehensive compensation guidelines, including a total compensation philosophy, and strategies for future procedures to determine UCG staff compensation. Members include Karen Archer (Board of Business), …
Continue readingSome call them the “dog days,” others celebrate the notion of summer’s “lazy, hazy, crazy days,” but however they hit you, right now most days are . . . hot. Some of us are fortunate enough to be able to …
Continue readingThe PPP Subcommittee met on July 13 after the July 6 meeting had to be cancelled due to Tropical Storm Elsa. The subcommittee took time to get to know one another better and to agree on a set of guidelines …
Continue readingAs our church family has embraced the return to our community connections we are again facing new variant threats. It feels like a kind of twisted déjà vu when our world felt so close to emerging from this pandemic. I …
Continue readingHello Families! For the month of August we will continue with Activity Time fun and games beginning from 9:45am until the end of worship. On August 22 and 29, Activity Time will be extended until noon as we celebrate the …
Continue readingVisiting Ray Meeks After Two Years I had not visited Ray Meeks in almost two years because of COVID. I saw him again July 27, and so much has happened since then. As a reminder, Ray has been on death …
Continue readingFor newcomers to UCG, the Mommy Reads program is a ministry that collects new children’s books and takes them to the women’s prison at the Florida Women’s Reception Center (FWRC) just north of Ocala. We record mothers and grandmothers there …
Continue readingBromleigh McCleneghan’s installation service is on Sunday, August 22. “Installation” is sort of a funny word to use for the ceremony in which we officially welcome a new minister into our congregation. I remember hearing jokes about plugging in former …
Continue readingYour church needs you! Join a Board or Committee and make a difference in the life of UCG. There will be an online sign-up starting in the August 10th E-vents and continuing each Tuesday through August 31st. …
Continue readingWe encourage everyone to keep up with their pledges to enable us to move through the summer with adequate cash flow. Pledge and Overall Income continue on pace with overall expenses, but we will see the latter ramp up this …
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