In-person Worship and Activities Suspended until at least February 2021

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Thank you for your grace, patience, prayer, and ongoing support of this ministry as this congregation continues to navigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The influences that caused our suspension of in-person worship in November continue unabated. In fact, COVID-19 cases, deaths, and...

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Free Financial Workshops This Fall!

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Confirm Your Seat Now for Essential Financial Workshops Our upcoming financial workshops are sponsored and presented by the United Methodist Foundation -- an organization committed to supporting United Methodist churches in making disciples for Christ for the transformation of the world. They...

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Recent Union Chapel Missions Projects

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When a Little Can Mean So Much! UgandaLast month, Union Chapel was given an opportunity to make an immediate impact for Christian brothers and sisters struggling to build a church in Uganda. Our friends at Grace Tabernacle Ministries (you might remember the Congolese choir from that church who...

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The Sarcasm Font

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I’ve noticed, lately, an uptick in the injection of sarcastic remarks into dialogue on serious matters in our country.  Actually, more than an uptick—more like a flood.  How unfortunate!   What is sarcasm?  My online dictionary (via a Google search) defines...

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Your Legacy at Union Chapel

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Betty and Josie Clawson... Bob and Lela Bauerband... Thelma Farmer... Ruby and Rosemary Whitehall... George Ellsworth... Alice Witt... Jim, Ann, and Wally Knight... these are just some of the names I remember fondly from my tiny, hometown church. These are some of the people who made a lasting...

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The Benevolence Box Ministry

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"Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." -- Hebrews 13:2 Weekly (sometimes daily) Union Chapel is visited by "Angels unawares" -- random visitors to the church's side door -- most of them, folks who have simply found themselves in...

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A Life of Service

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Dear Friends:   Last week, the message in worship was about seeking--seeking purpose, seeking meaning, seeking one another and, most of all, seeking God.  We considered wise men and shepherds and angels and gleaming stars; we considered, also, a frightened tyrant, a...

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What Does It Mean To Seek?

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Dear Friends:   With the New Year, we have seen the efforts of many to "self-improve."  At the YMCA, for example, the parking lot is crowded, new faces flash on the check-in screen, the steps of the unfamiliar fall on treadmills and, of course, shiny new work-out clothes...

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