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Board of Business – September 2021
Please give Prayerful Consideration to your UCG Pledge Commitment for 2022. In a little over a month, we will all be asked to provide responses during our Stewardship/Enlistment Drive. Hopefully, most of us will be in a position to help …
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PPP Subcommittee Update
Friends, it has been my joy to work (as a non-voting member) with the members of the PPP subcommittee this summer, under the leadership of facilitator and current Council Exec member Jim White. It is also my joy to share …
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September Clergy Corner – Andy Bachmann
I am both excited and nervous to begin my three-month sabbatical this month. While some of the plans from my initial proposal still stand, others have changed, as one might expect in this time of covid. But this time of …
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UCG Young Adult Group
UCG’s Young Adult Group is open to all post-high school young adults and meets for lunch twice per month from September through April. The group meets at the fountain in the Courtyard after the second service to walk to a …
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September Sunday Seminars
During September, the UCG Sunday Seminar Committee will host an inspiring collection of Sunday Seminars: They will be available on Zoom at 10:15am. Meeting ID: 829 6457 0385, Passcode: 1624. Here are September’s offerings: September 12 UCG Enriches My …
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United Tribes – September 2021
For the month of September while we remain in the red zone we will continue with Activity Time fun and games outdoors only during the 9:15am service. Advanced registration is required each week. All children over the age of …
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CMRB – Tim Martin
As you all probably know, boards and committees are the engines that make UCG go. Boards and committees plan and carry out programming, provide guidance and feedback to the ministers, and perform critical outreach to our community. During the pandemic, …
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Food 4 Kids Update
I am very pleased to tell you that the planning for another F4Ks year at Rawlings Elementary School is under way. All of the volunteers are happy that we were able to complete the program last year. Historically, we have …
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Coronavirus Advisory Team
The Covid Advisory Team has revised the screening questions for Sunday morning worship services. The new screening questions take into account the varied landscape of scenarios currently present in our community. The availability of testing, a likelihood of asymptomatic infections, …
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Celebrating the Bergs
Catherine and Sanford Berg are two of our longest-tenured members of the United Church of Gainesville. They joined UCG in 1971- while we were still worshipping at the Presbyterian Student Center on University Avenue. Since then, they have been loyal …
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Time & Talent Update – 2021
On August 29th UCG had the first in-person Board and Committee recruitment fair in two and a half years. We owe much appreciation to Moderator-elect Barb Gibbs as well as Lisa and Shanna in the office for putting so much …
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The Vinery
Near the beginning of June I received an email from the Rev. Alexis Carter Thomas, looking for congregations within two miles of a university campus who might be interested in learning about the program she is managing. Her email read, …