CUCC Weekly eNews

Please join us in supporting the Raleigh CROP Hunger Walk. CUCC has a team walking. There are two ways you can get involved (1) Join the team, or (2) donate. You can do either of these via our team website: http://hunger.cwsglobal.org/goto/cucc_cropwalk2014 . The walk will take place on Sunday October 26. The walk begins at 3 pm. 5k or 1 mile short options available. We begin and end at Marbles Kids Museum, 201 E Hargett St. Registration starts at 2pm. It is a family friendly event and includes a costume contest for the kids. For further information or for paper registration, please contact Maria Mayorga. "CROP Hunger Walks help to support the overall ministry of Church World Service, especially grassroots, hunger-fighting development efforts around the world. In addition, each local CROP Hunger Walk can choose to return up to 25 percent of the funds it raises to hunger-fighting programs in its own community. CROP Hunger Walks help to provide food and water, as well as reso...

Join the discussion as we learn from experts in the field and consider how we might respond. Sunday, October 5 : Children at the Border.   More than 66,000 unaccompanied children have crossed the border.  In the last year more than 47,000 children have crossed.  More than 1,400 of those children have recently been relocated to North Carolina.  We have 170 of the children in Wake County.  There are many legal and moral issues involved.  Ann Robertson and Hans Linnartz will join us at Forum to discuss this child immigrant crisis.    Ann is an immigration lawyer with the Robertson Immigration Law Firm in Raleigh.  The firm represents individuals and companies in all aspects of immigration law, including employment-based and family-based immigration, naturalization, citizenship, asylum and non-immigrant visas.  Hans is a Raleigh immigration lawyer whose practice emphasizes deportation defense, immigration consequences of cri...

New Members this Sunday! NC Pride Festival and Parade – Saturday, September 27 Forum – September 28, 9:15am UNC Infectious Diseases Clinic Coat Drive People’s Climate Change Vigil Need Help with Fellowship in October Stewardship Ministry Meets this Sunday Documentary - "Pictures from a Hiroshima School Yard" Pray at the Legislature Sisters in Spirit (SIS) Neighbors In Need Offering - October 5 Walk For Hope - Sunday, October 12 Raleigh CROP Hunger Walk Come Help PLM Families Together Grow! New Members this Sunday! Join us this Sunday as we welcome three new members to our CUCC family!  Vernon Burkhart, Maria Mayorga, and Jason Myers will join our congregation as members this Sunday.  Please come out and welcome them! NC Pride Festival and Parade – Saturday, September 27 Come out and show your support for our LGBT family and friends.  CUCC will have an outreach table and will march in the parade.  If you have never been to Pride, you have missed out on a wonderfully a...

On September 21, 2014, a national climate change rally was held in New York. In support of that rally, the Triangle Interfaith Alliance held a supportive vigil at Community UCC to coincide with the New York demonstration of support for national action on climate change. Representatives from a wide spectrum of Triangle religious groups participated in the vigil, which was led by CUCC Pastor Steve Halsted. The vigil lasted for approximately an hour. The video included here is a 10-minute condensation that shows the breadth and scope of the vigil. In order to make the vigil as "public" as possible, the vigil was held on the corner of Wade Avenue and Dixie Trail on the lawn in front of the church. Thus there is considerable traffic noise in the background. (Filmed by Lavon Page and Karen Withem.) This video is permanently archived in the CUCC Archive.

Community UCC has traditionally supported one church-wide mission offering in the spring and another one in the fall. The fall offering, Neighbors in Need (NIN), will be collected October 5.  Neighbors in Need is a UCC mission offering that targets needs near to home by supporting ministries of justice and compassion in the United States. One-third of NIN funds support the Council for American Indian Ministry(CAIM). Two-thirds of the offering is used by the UCC's Justice and Witness Ministries(JWM) to support a variety of justice initiatives, advocacy efforts, and direct service projects through grants. Neighbors in Need grants are awarded to churches and organizations doing justice work in their communities. These grants fund projects whose work ranges from direct service to community organizing and advocacy to address systemic injustice. And here are just a three examples of grant recipients: Mano en Mano  is the “go-to” agency in Downeast Maine for Latino/Latina, immigrant,...

People’s Climate March Vigil Forum – September 21, 9:15am 30-Day Vegan Pledge “Voting Rights for All” Pray at the Legislature Presentation by Rev. Mitri Raheb – September 24, 2014 Documentary - "Pictures from a Hiroshima School Yard" NC Pride Festival and Parade – Saturday, September 27 Sisters in Spirit (SIS) Neighbors In Need Offering - October 5 Walk For Hope - Sunday, October 12 Raleigh CROP Hunger Walk Come Help PLM Families Together Grow! Kroger’s Guns-in-Stores Policy People’s Climate March Vigil Please join us at 4:00pm Sunday on the front lawn of CUCC for an interfaith vigil in support of the People’s Climate March.  Sponsored by: Triangle Interfaith Alliance, Community United Church of Christ, North Carolina Interfaith Power and Light, Audubon Society of North Carolina, 350.org Triangle Chapter, Triangle Native American Society, Muslims for Social Justice, the Methodist Federation for Social Action – North Carolina Conference, and North Carolina Conservation Network...

The News & Observer reported today that Judy Miller died in Seattle WA on June 13, 2014. Judy and her late husband Howard Miller were long time participants in the CUCC Sunday Morning Forum. Howard predeceased her in 2012. Judy Miller obituary reported by Raleigh N&O, Sept. 14, 2014 (Note that there is a misprint in the obit that gives the date of death in the header as June 13, 2013. The correct date is June 13, 2014.)

New Parent Meeting for Those New to Youth Program Communion will be Served the Second Sunday in September Fall Sunday School class will begin Sunday, September 14th All Youth (6th-12th grade) Church School Kick-Off Forum Resumes September 14th Sisters In Spirit – (SIS) Cooks Needed for Wright Center Meal Pray at the Legislature Volunteers Needed for Wake Federation of the Blind Updated Church Directories West Raleigh Presbyterian Church – Fall Art Exhibition “Voting Rights for All” Presentation by Rev. Mitri Raheb – September 24, 2014 Documentary - "Pictures from a Hiroshima School Yard" PFLAG Fundraiser NC Pride Festival and Parade – Saturday, September 27 New Parent Meeting for Those New to Youth Program On Saturday, September 13, we will have a New Parent Meeting for those new to the youth program. While this meeting will focus on listening to and informing new parents, all parents are welcome. It will take place upstairs in the Pilgrim House from 9:30am -11:00am. Coffee, ...

At Welcoming Sunday on Sept. 7, the Youth Group painted faces for children.

You’re Invited to a Wedding! Communion Table Flowers Welcoming Sunday is this Sunday, September 7th! Claim your 30-seconds of fame Food Bags Due this Sunday Life& Faith in Downtown Raleigh – September 9th Communion will be Served the Second Sunday in September Fall Sunday School class will begin Sunday, September 14th All Youth (6th-12th grade) Church School Kick-Off Save the Dates! Forum Resumes September 14th New Parent Meeting for Those New to Youth Program Pray at the Legislature Volunteers Needed for Wake Federation of the Blind Basement Keys Missing Updated Church Directories West Raleigh Presbyterian Church – Fall Art Exhibition You’re Invited to a Wedding! Julie Robertson and Daniel Day's wedding is Saturday, September 6th, 2:00pm, at CUCC. A simple reception will follow in the Vaughan Fellowship Hall. Church family is welcome. No gifts please - thanks! Communion Table Flowers The Communion table flowers are given this Sunday, Grandparents’ Day, by John and Julie Robert...