WELCOME KATE

Saturday, August 19

4:30-6:30 ORUCC Lawn



Come join us in continuing our radical welcome for Associate Pastor Kate Mackey.

We will gather on the church lawn, any time between 4:30 and 6:30 for a picnic, lawn games and informal fellowship. If you’d like, feel free to bring a picnic blanket, though we will have the tents and a few tables and chairs set up.

We will provide juice, lemonade and water. Bring your picnic supper and if you have a favorite lawn game you want to bring, please feel free! We will provide paper plates, bowls, cups, napkins and cutlery. Please bring your own serving utensils if you need them.

We hope to see you this Saturday, August 19th. The weather looks to be perfect!

Donate items this Saturday, August 19 & Sunday, August 20 at ORUCC from 11 am – 3 pm for the MOSES Rummage Sale

MOSES is having a rummage sale. MOSES, of which ORUCC is a congregational member, is an organization that advocates for criminal justice reform and ending systemic racism thus allowing all people to thrive. The rummage sale will be at St. Dunstan’s 6205 University Avenue (Near Allen Blvd) Saturday, August 25 8 am to 5pm & Sunday, August 26 8 am to 3 pm. Items are sold for the amount the person is willing and able to pay. This policy has worked in the past both to raise funds for MOSES and to allow community people to acquire things they need.

Items needed:

tools

small appliances

household items

clothing 

books

MOSES is not able to accept computers, TVs, exercise equipment, sofas, futons, or baby furniture this year. If you’d like to contribute items for the sale, there is only a small window of opportunity. Please bring items in good, working condition to ORUCC this Saturday, Aug 19, 11 am-3 pm, or Sunday, Aug 20, 11 am – 3 pm, or to St. Dunstan’s on August 24 (8 am to 5 pm). Please don’t bring items to either site at any other time. If you can’t bring items then, there will be a FREECYCLE event at ORUCC in the Spring.

Meditation Group Changes

August 25th the meditation group will have a hybrid session which you can choose to join us in person in the Swan Room or via Zoom.

September 8th–Would you like to try Forest bathing? Becky Baumbach will lead a forest bathing session at Holy Wisdom. All are welcome. Contact Sue Dixon or Becky Baumbach for more details.

Kids in the Garden During Worship

For a few Sundays this summer, we will offer “Kids in the Garden” during worship. This is a time for kids to experience the joy of God’s creation as they tend the children’s veggie garden. Kids who wish to join in will begin by gathering in the worship service. All are welcome!



Aug. 20: Adult Leader Rachael Lancor

AUGUST COMPASSION OFFERING

The Great Turning Catholic Worker House of Hospitality

The Great Turning Catholic Worker Farm is a community on the west side of Madison offering hospitality and community to people experiencing homelessness. We prioritize mothers with their children, refugees, asylees, and immigrants. Guests have been referred to us by St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Parish, folks in the Meadowood and Prairie Hills neighborhoods, and soon the Catholic Multicultural Center.

A ‘house of hospitality’ within the Catholic Worker movement provides shelter, and often food and clothing, to those in need. The Catholic Worker was founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in New York in 1933 amidst the Great Depression as a way to live out Catholic Social Teaching and the Gospel values– responding to the needs of those immediately around them.

At the Great Turning, we usually expect to have from one to four adult guests and one live-in volunteer. We come together for one community meal each week (we’d like to do more, with more support), a monthly roundtable discussion, and other time together with guests depending on support needed that we can provide.

We’d like to thank all of you at Orchard Ridge UCC for your support. This is a community endeavor, and not something our organization is trying to do in isolation. In addition, we are looking for other kinds of support including meal preparation, childcare, transportation for guests, gardening, house maintenance, and financial support. Click here to see the household items to donate. Thank you!

Thank you in advance for your contribution.

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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 from our website. The link is https://orucc.org/contribute/support/

Spiritual

Nourishment

for you!

For the week of Aug 17 – Aug 23

Read this week’s reflections as a way to dive deeper into your spiritual practice or to get some nourishment and inspiration

for your day.

Click Here for Reflections

We are grateful for the ministry of Jeanne Moberly who is a member of Adult Faith Formation, as she puts together a set of fresh readings every week for our devotional practice at Orchard Ridge UCC. You will see these posted daily if you are part of the “Members & Friends” Facebook group. If you know someone who needs encouragement and would like the devotional mailed to them, please contact Julie Wombacher in the church office.

Magic Pride Festival

Sunday, August 20, 1-6 pm

Warner Park

Please join us at the Magic Pride Festival. Stop and see us at booth G52.

OutReach LGBTQ+ Community Center will host our 5th Annual Magic Pride Festival LIVE in person on Sunday, August 20th from 1pm to 6pm at Warner Park in Madison!

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The 2023 Magic Pride Festival included a stage show with local LGBTQ+ identified performers, large vendor area, games and activities for youth and families, food and beverages, and more!

For more information, please call OutReach at 255-8582 and ask for Steve. Also e-mail at [email protected].

Pride Interfaith Service

Please join us on August 21 at Bethany United Methodist Church, 3910 Mineral Point Rd, Madison, WI 53705, for an interfaith event to celebrate and support the LGBTQIA+ community. Flyer

Organizations will table starting @ 5:00PM

Light picnic refreshments will be served

INTERFAITH PRIDE SERVICE @ 6:30PM

This service centers Queer voices and celebrates the LGBTQIA+ community and our allies.

Thank you to those congregations and organizations that have signed on so far to co-sponsor. It is not too late to add your congregation/organization! If you are interested, please be in touch with Manato Jansen for details at [email protected]. 

Thanksgiving Year-Round

For several years, ORUCC supported our Southwest neighbors with Thanksgiving food baskets or gift cards. Since 2020, ORUCC has transitioned this avenue of support to an online Thanksgiving Year-Round Fund to support neighbors needing supplemental funds for food and gasoline through Woodman’s gift cards. The gift card distribution process has been overwhelmingly positive. Our ongoing partnership with the Early Childhood Initiative (ECI); Joining Forces for Families (JFF); and Common Wealth Development (CWD) ensures that your contribution is providing direct support to our neighbors in need.

We kindly ask for your ongoing support to the Thanksgiving Year-Round Fund. Making a contribution is easy, just go to: https://orucc.org/contribute/support/ Click on the link-box “Contribute to the Thanksgiving Year-Round Fund”.

Youth Newsletter

Looking for the Youth Newsletter on the website?

Click on the LINK

Purchase Cards on the table

in the Crossroads each Sunday Morning!

Updated Masking Policy

In response to recent declines in COVID infection numbers and a steady low level of local community spread, the ORUCC COVID Response Team has updated the masking policy:

• Masking is optional throughout the building
• Those with symptoms of illness should refrain from entering the building
• Individual decisions to mask or not mask are to be respected
• This policy may be revised with changes in infection number or levels of community spread 

AT ORUCC, the Members

are the Ministers!

We are seeking volunteers to serve on Sunday mornings for in-person worship. You need not be a member, simply a person who loves ORUCC and is eager to find

a place to serve!

Young people are welcome to sign up too!

Would you consider serving one or more times as

a Coffee Maker, a Welcomer, a Lay Liturgist or

to assist with Holy Communion?

It has been fairly easy finding Lay Liturgists and Communion Assistants, but much more challenging finding

Coffee-Makers and Welcomers!

Feel free to sign up as an individual, a couple, or a family!

Click here to sign up as a Coffee Maker

Click here to sign up as a Welcomer

Click here to sign up as a Lay Liturgist

Click here to assist with Holy Communion

Click here to set-up and/or tear-down for Outdoor Worship

After selecting one or more dates, you will need to click “Submit and Sign Up” at the bottom of the page, then enter your name & email address, then click “Sign Up Now.”

Questions or problems signing up?

Contact Ken Pennings at [email protected] or 608-556-2371.

Orchard Ridge United Church of Christ

1501 Gilbert Road

Madison, WI 53711

608-271-7212

Office Hours: M-Th 8:30-12:30