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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...