Connect to a Real Network with Real People this Lent

 Life in the community of faith is life within a real network.  There is nothing virtual about live worship, live music, live workshops, live service or your life.

Lent is a time to connect or reconnect with the network of faith.

The Lenten disciplines of repentance, fasting, prayer, study and works of love are ways of making a connection with God, with others, with ourselves.

On this page, you will find a range of different ways of getting connected to the network of faith through United Church of Chapel Hill.

 

March 14 - Fourth Sunday in Lent
This Sunday Jenny Shultz, Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries, will preach.   The United Voices of Praise will sing at the 8:45 service and the Chancel Choir will sing at the 11:00 am service.  There is ASL interpretation for the 11 am worship. 

YOUNG ADULT BREAKFAST, March 14, beginning at 7:45 am
Overcome the loss of an hour of sleep by having breakfast at church!  The Young Adults will have breakfast ready beginning at 7:45 am.  Come early, have breakfast and stay for the 8:45 service. 

LENTEN SERIES, WEDNESDAY, March 17, meal begins at 5:45 pm, programs begin at 6:30 pm
This year's Lenten series will offer opportunities (1) Regarding Race:  Using Photography to Explore Racial Identity – a Sacred Conversation on Race; (2) Strengthening Relationships; (3) Five for Five:  Spiritual Practices – an invitation to  talk about what is most deeply meaningful to us; (4) Alienation – what is the source of our estrangement from one another, creation, and God; (5) Parenting;  (6) Understanding Passover, for children and their parents; (7) Seder Pottery with Cely Chicurel in the Sacred Space Studio, and (8) Meeting in Silence: Prayer and Meditation.  There is a meal (benefiting a cause) beginning at 5:45.  The programs are from 6:30 until 7:30.  Participants are invited to stay for choir practice which begins at 7:30.  

March 21 - Fifth Sunday in Lent
This Sunday the Youth Choir will be proclaiming the Word through their offering of “I Witness News.”  There is ASL interpretation for the 11 am worship. 

FAURE’S REQUIEM, March 21, 7 pm
The Chancel Choir of United Church of Chapel Hill directed by Jenny Anderson will present Faure’s Requiem on Sunday evening, March 21, at 7pm.  

ADULT FORUM:  Preparing for Seder, March 21 10 am - Fellowship Hall
Bill Chicurel and Justin Valas will talk about the Seder Meal in preparation for a congregational Seder meal on Wednesday evening, March 24. 

CROP WALK, March 21, 2:00 pm
United Church of Chapel Hill will join other area congregations on Sunday afternoon, March 22, for the CROP Walk to raise money and awareness about hunger throughout our community and the world.
 
HABITAT WORKDAY, March 20
United Church of Chapel Hill is hammering for Habitat on 1st and 3rd Saturdays to build three houses during this Centennial year. 

LENTEN SERIES, WEDNESDAY, March 24, meal begins at 5:45 pm,
The meal and the program will be a Seder meal as lead by Bill Chicurel and Justin Valas.  Participants are invited to stay for choir practice which begins at 7:30.