ORUCC Worship Resources for March 6

Julia Burkey on March 5, 2022

Orchard Ridge United Church of Christ
Worship Resources 03.06.2022
Lent I
You are invited
to join us in-person or
live-streamed
March 6th 10:00 a.m.
Photo above of Jordan Valley by Eddie & Carolina Stigson
Preaching: Pastor Julia Burkey
Sermon: Our Journey of Lent
Worship Participants: Jim McNamara, Pastor Tammy Martens, Pastor Ken Pennings
Join our Worship virtually
on YouTube any time after 10 am:
You will need to refresh the page
after 10 am if you have opened it before
Social Justice Programming Continues!
9:00 am, this Sunday March 6, 2021
Join us in Friendship Hall at 9am as our Racial Justice Mission Team hosts MOSES, the Madison chapter of the faith-based statewide advocacy group WISDOM, who will discuss their work in reducing incarceration and addressing racial justice issues.

9:00 am Sunday School
For children through 5th grade.
6th-8th graders will be visiting
AHA Shiva Vishnu Temple in Fitchburg.
10:00 am Music Connections & Crafts/Play time
Children and youth are invited to 10:00 worship & after the Children’s moment will be invited to Music Connections
(for 2nd graders and older)
or Craft/Play time (preschool–first grade).
Java & Jesus
March 6th, at 11:30 am, by Zoom
Dan Rossmiller facilitating
All are welcome!
Please join us even if this is your first time!
This Sunday’s session will focus on a chapter from John Shelby Spong’s book Liberating the Gospels, Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes.
 
The Chapter, entitled ”He Died According to the Scriptures” is Spong’s exploration of ways in which certain Old Testament scriptures were used to shape the Gospels’ telling of Jesus’ story. His analysis posits that the Gospels were not biographies so much as faith proclamations of the early Christians. 
 
Spong, who passed away last year, was the Episcopal Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, from 1979 to 2000, and a liberal Christian theologian who authored numerous books advocating a
rethinking of Christian belief.
Meeting ID: 826 5367 7444
Passcode: 943784
Dial: +1 312 626 6799
March Compassion Offering
One Great Hour of Sharing

One Great Hour of Sharing®, an ecumenical offering sponsored in Lent by the United Church of Christ, provides humanitarian and disaster relief in the United States and around the world. When a disaster strikes or people are displaced or made refugees by violence or extreme poverty, you are part of the immediate response and the work for long- term recovery. Because the UCC works in partnership to churches and organizations through Global Ministries and worldwide response and recovery networks, your contributions to One Great Hour of Sharing put you in the right place at the right time for the relief, accompaniment and recovery of the most vulnerable. You meet immediate needs and you address the underlying causes that create those needs in the first place.  
You can make a donation by check, on the memo line, please write “compassion” and mail to ORUCC, 1501 Gilbert Road, Madison, WI 53711, or donate online at orucc.org. Click the brown button “Contribute” in the upper right of the home page.

Gathering Safely with COVID
Our COVID Response Team will meet again March 6th at 1pm to evaluation our COVID mitigations again. 
We still ask that when you join in us for any ORUCC activity, you wear a surgical mask or KN95 or stronger. We provide these at the door for your convenience. We ask that adults sit spaced every other chair in the Worship Hall. Your kids may sit on your laps and in pods with families when in worship, and Friendship Hall and Crossroads will be open for more spacious seating for family units. We welcome you to sing softly behind your masks if you are fully vaccinated and boosted if eligible. Thank you for your cooperation as we aim to keep each other healthy and safe. 
If you are experiencing any symptoms of being under the weather we kindly ask you to join us virtually. If you do test positive for COVID after being with us, please share with us as soon as you can.
 
Here is the LINK for details and protocols for Back-to-Church.

Julie Wombacher and Pastor Julia Burkey will take the week of March 7th – 14th off as Lent begins.
Office Manager Julie Wombacher available Mon.-Thurs. 8:30am -12:30 pm
608-271-7212 or EMAIL
Senior Pastor Julia Burkey available
Tues.- Fri. & Sun. 9:00 am – 7:00 pm
by appointment
518-542-6915 EMAIL
Associate Pastor Tammy Martens: available
Tues.- Fri. 10:00 am -4:00 pm by appointment
608-975-3184 or EMAIL
Associate Pastor Ken Pennings: available
Tues.-Thurs. 10:00 am -5:00 pm by appointment
608-556-2371 EMAIL
All pastors (try to) take Monday & Saturday as Sabbath days.
Friday is observed as a writing day for the preaching pastor.
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