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Kitchen Renovation Update #3

Inside Our New Kitchen: Keeping Everything Clean

We want to share with you more fabulous features of our new kitchen. Remember our old cranky and cumbersome dish washer? It is now replaced with two (yes 2!) new commercial grade under counter dishwashers with a high temperature water pump that heats water & washes dishes in a 10-minute cycle (WOW!) It saves energy too.

Lots of Sinks!

This 3-sink combo allows us to wash large items according to health department standards. We also have drain tables next to it with compost buckets under it.

Additionally we have a dedicated hand washing sink (per regulations) and a separate prep sink which allows us to wash vegetables and fill water pitchers without being near dirty dishes.

Now prep and clean-up crews will have jobs that are cleaner, quicker and easier. So when we return to the church, be sure to volunteer for one of these teams!

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From DLRE: May 10, 2020

By now, many of us have found a new routine with working at home or online learning, what people are calling “the new norm”. And yet many parents (and young people too, I’m sure) are still struggling to find the balance in holding the many threads of life they have between work and family time, partners and children, mental health and physical health, and many others. I am hearing that time to just be is hard to come by. For those with children and youth doing e-learning, the school year is coming to an end and with it the disappointments of missing out on musical performances, theater productions, sports, proms, and graduations.

And now summer is around the corner, although the cooler weather this week makes it seem a lot further away. Families are wondering what they will be able to do together, and what children and youth will have to entertain themselves without school and summer camps.

Typically, we would hold an all-ages RE program over the summer, with different adults or older youth offering an activity, social action project, or a morning of games. Now we find ourselves wondering what we can offer that families or the children themselves would be engaged in given the parameters we have. Not knowing if, or when those parameters might change complicates things a bit more too. Ask your family how they would like to connect with UCE friends this summer and see what ideas they offer. Think outside the box! Shoot me an email at kunderwood@uce.org and let me know what comes up in your brainstorming.

For now, look for this week’s VirtUUal RE session on the homepage. Your family can do this together at your own convenience any time during the week. You can read the session here and look at the links within it. Keep checking the UCE Children and Youth Facebook page, for other ideas to do for all ages and as a family.

Here’s a special treat for you: Rev. Eileen telling a story! If you would like to record yourself reading or telling a story that would be shared on our Facebook page and in our newsletter, let Kathy know. It would be wonderful to have a whole collection!

In Faith,
Kathy

From DLRE: May 10, 2020UCE UCE2020-05-07T17:11:47+00:00

May 10, 2020

We will host an online worship service on Sunday, May 10th at 11:15 am.

“The Good Enough Mother” – If you are or have a mother, you are probably aware of the mix of feelings that arise in the face of the cultural and commercial phenomenon known as “Mothers’ Day”. In these times of all-or- nothing contact between children and parents, let us take a moment to reflect on the cultural myths that color our expectations of these important relationships.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. We are finding some messages do not show up in the chat box during the service. If you submit a message by 11 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all!

Note the 9:30 and 11:15 services are being rolled into one service time so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is The Poor People’s Campaign (click here to learn more).

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May 1, 2020

Click here to read this week’s newsletter.

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