Spiritually Alive, Joyfully Inclusive, Committed to Justice
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Weekly Announcements
for Thursday, September 19
Human Resources Mission Team
Thursday, September 19
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Romero Room
Deanna Blanchard
Zoom Meditation Group
Friday, September 20
9:30 – 10:30 am
Sue Dixon
ORUCC MOSES Group
Friday, September 20
1:00 – 3:00 pm
Swan Room
Barbie Jackson
Sunday, September 22
9:00 am Children and Youth Faith Formation
(formerly “Sunday School”)
10:00 am Worship
Point Pastor: Kate Mackey
Sermon: Rachel Bauman
Lay Liturgist: Lauren Amburn
WCC Prayer: Ginny Moore Kruse
Mission Moment: Ruthanne Landsness
11:15 am Sermon Talk-Back
11:15 am Ministry of Youth Faith Formation Meeting, Romero Room
Black History for a New Day (BHFAND) group course
Monday, September 23
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Swam Room and Zoom
Anne Haase Kehl and Pam Oliver
Men’s Group
Monday, September 23
7:15 – 8:45 pm
Romero Room
John Lemke
Care of Creation Mission Team
Tuesday, September 24
7:00 – 8:30 pm
If interested in attending, email Jill Westberg at [email protected]
Palestinian Justice Mission Team
Tuesday, September 24
7:00 – 8:00 pm
Swan Room
Community of Practice Clergy Group
Wednesday, September 25
10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Romero Room
Rev. Kate Mackey
Immigration Justice Mission Team
Wednesday, September 25
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Zoom
Ruthanne Landsness
Meditation Group
Thursday, September 26
8:00 – 9:00 am
Romero Room
Becky Baumbach
Racial Justice Mission Team
Thursday, September 26
9:45 – 11:15 am
Zoom
Pam Oliver
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Pastors’ On-Call Schedule
Your pastors are here for you! Pastors Ken and Kate are sharing an “on call” schedule. Please do not hesitate to reach out to the on-call pastor with your pastoral care needs, questions or concerns.
September 16 – 22: Kate Mackey [email protected]
September 23 – 29: Ken Pennings [email protected]
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SEPTEMBER
COMPASSION OFFERING
Yahara House
Yahara House (YH), located in Madison Wisconsin, is an evidence-based community mental health program that focuses on recovery through social connection, meaningful activity, and reintroduction to community employment. YH’s mission is to transform the lives of people living with mental illness by replacing despair, stigma, and isolation with hope, dignity and community. YH is made up of community members who are working together to achieve some common goals, including:
- completing educational and employment goals
- developing self-esteem, confidence, and coping strategies
- finding and securing resources – such as affordable housing, primary care services; and
- living a life of respect and independence within the members’ larger community
Open and accessible to program members 40 hours a week, plus holidays and monthly evening and weekend social activities, YH offers a place for adults with mental illness to belong in a stigma-free environment. Yahara House was founded in 1976 and is an official member of Clubhouse International. You can find more information at Work and Community | Yahara House | Madison.
Thank you in advance for your donation to benefit Yahara House as our September Compassion Offering recipient. This video shares more info.
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/
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Sunday Morning Faith Formation for Children and Youth
Nursery care opens for children 1st grade and younger beginning at 8:30 a.m. on Sundays. We have two new nursery care workers: Najma and Abby. Both are nursing students at UW-Madison. Stop by to say hi!
Children and Youth Faith Formation for all ages is at 9:00 a.m. We are making the switch from using the language “Sunday School” to “Faith Formation” to more accurately reflect our hopes for this hour of time together on Sunday mornings.
For children Pre-K to 6th grade: Spring 2024, the children brainstormed a name to better represent our 9 am faith formation hour. The name they created is, “Peace Circle.” Most of our curriculum has a “Peace” element. Peace for the world, for each other, and for ourselves. “Circle” reflects that we are gathering together, usually in the shape of a circle. This fall’s Peace Circle guides are: Joanna Beilman-Dulin, Josie Gasser, Julie Horton, Karen Jaehnig, Kristin Schumacher, Maddie Miller, and Jill Westberg.
For Youth (7th grade-High School): This fall we will have an exploration of five major faith traditions. We hope to learn about the beauty and value of other faiths, while also learning more about our own faith tradition of Christianity in interfaith dialogue. Our guides this year are Kristian Muckian, Susan Jane Watson, and Al Blanchard.
Music Opportunities continue to be a highlight of our Sunday programming. Music Connections for children 2nd-6th grade meets during the 10:00 worship hour, after children’s time. TRU Function, our youth band, rehearses from 10:00-noon, with the intent to lead congregational worship monthly. Julie Mazer leads Music Connections, and Rob Martens directs TRU Function.
It is going to be another great year in Children and Youth ministries! Please don’t hesitate to reach out to Pastor Kate ([email protected]) or Julie Mazer ([email protected]) at any time.
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Flicker Wild Church
Join Pastor Julia & her spouse Rev. Daniel Cooperrider for a sacred circle and wild wander and potluck with Flicker Wild Church, to celebrate the Fall Equinox 2024, Sunday September 22, 5pm at Pop’s Knoll in Donald County Park in the unglaciated driftless hills west of Madison. We have rented Delma’s Shelter, and so we will celebrate our one-year mark of gathering as a wild church community with a potluck fellowship meal after. Bring something you love to share!
Save the Date—looking ahead our next two gatherings will be held at and in collaboration with the Farley Center for Peace, Justice & Sustainability. We will gather under the mother oak at the entrance to their Natural Path Sanctuary, as our “Wild Wander” moment will involve the trails that wind through their innovative, inspiring, and deeply earth-honoring green/natural burial grounds. We will meet there on Samhain, November 1, and on the Winter Solstice, December 21, likely at 4pm.
New Growth—we’ve been working on a new website this summer! We are also excited to share that we have received fiscal sponsorship/ 501(c)3 status through Mission.Earth—tax deductible donations are live now, but stay tuned for emerging plans for a fun fundraising event. We are also in conversation and discernment with the Wisconsin Conference United Church of Christ as a new church start! Our dream is one in which Wild Churches like Flicker are as completely legitimate, self-organizing/self-sustaining, and ultimately impactful in holding space for transformative encounter as any “indoor church” or traditional spiritual community. I remain more convinced than ever that the Earth (ecosystems, climate, biodiversity) is calling out for more nature-honoring human spiritualities to pop up like mushrooms and flourish, and so we’d love to invite you all to continue with us in this journey of dreaming big for a vibrant year and years ahead for Flicker Wild Church!
Yours wildly,
Daniel, Julia, Reverie & Kindred
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Come sing with us–join our Choir!
All singers are welcome to join our Choir! Rehearsals are Wednesday
evenings from 7:00 to 8:30pm. We sing in worship the first and third
Sundays of the month, gathering for rehearsal 9am those Sunday mornings.
Please share your voice with a group of music-loving friendly people! For more information, email Bruce Gladstone at [email protected].
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Seeking landscape volunteers!
We need to gather people interested in the landscape at ORUCC, make plans for future plantings and manage work in the flower gardens. Please join us on Sunday, September 29th after the 10:00 am worship service to contribute your input and ideas. Contact Joyce Pohl at [email protected] with questions, or if you have ideas and cannot attend the meeting.
Click here to sign up as a landscape volunteer.
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Worker Justice in Action
Sunday, 9/29/24, 9am, in the Swan Room
The ORUCC Immigration Justice Team invites you to a presentation by members of Los Volcanes, a low-income worker cooperative that specializes in screenprinting, sewing, and embroidery.
Come help us celebrate the successful creation by Los Volcanes of an immigrant-led cooperative. The group will discuss their decision to become a cooperative, the cooperative support network and the place of cooperatives in the greater labor movement.
Come hear about their experience with workplace discrimination and wage theft. Los Volcanes recently filed a successful complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against Crushin’ It Apparel. The Board ordered the owner to reinstate the employees, to pay owed wages and benefits and to cease impeding their right to organize.
The workers will bring some of their products for display and sale.
Come join us in the Swan Room, 9am, Sunday, 9/29/24! Thank you.
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October 8th program: White Christian Nationalism and Project 2025: What Do We Do Now?
The Faithful Stance for Equity program “White Christian Nationalism and Project 2025: What Do We Do Now?” will be Tuesday, October 8 at 6:30 pm on Zoom. Breanna Illéné from the Wisconsin Council of Churches will review the ideological parallels between White Christian Nationalism and Project 2025, a current news story. It looks like a really engaging evening, especially in terms of enabling us to explain why White Christian nationalism is more than just a theoretical theological concern. Faithful Stance for Equity is a statewide project of the Wisconsin Council of Churches, Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice, the WISDOM network, and others. Registration link is
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcudO6rrDsvHda7Z6h4pLABMzkUfdvsZ9QX#/registration
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Spiritual
Nourishment
for you!
For September 19 – 25
Now that summer is over, we have returned to our regular format of providing Daily Reflections on a weekly basis.
Daily Reflections: September 19 – 25
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. If you know someone who needs encouragement and would like the devotional mailed to them, please contact the church office.
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Wayfinding 2024-2025
”Wayfinding: The Soul Tasks of Aging: Toward a Theology of the Elder Years” will continue the next program year with brand new themes and programming, beginning October 16, 2024 from 9:30 to 11 am in Friendship Hall, and meeting every 3rd Wednesday of the month then on ZOOM the following Thursday from 4:00 to 5:15 pm.
Two books to focus on:
We will begin with Parker Palmer’s book, “On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity & Getting Old” for the first 4 sessions and then the remaining 4 in the Spring will be themed around Connie Zweig’s book, “The Inner Work of Aging: Shifting from Role to Soul.”
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Sign Up to Volunteer on Sunday Mornings Now Through the End of
September 2024!
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, an Usher, a Lay Liturgist or
to assist with Holy Communion?
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 an Usher
Click here to sign up as a Lay Liturgist
Click here to assist with Holy Communion
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.
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Office Manager George Decker
available Mon.-Fri. 8:30am -1:30 pm
608-271-7212 or EMAIL
Senior Pastor Julia Burkey has returned from maternity leave!
Office hours: Tuesday – Thursday 9:30 am – 12:00 pm
& by appointment Tuesday – Thursday 9:30 am – 5 pm
518-542-6915 EMAIL
Associate Pastor Ken Pennings: available
Tues.-Thurs. 10:00 am -5:00 pm
by appointment
608-556-2371 EMAIL
Associate Pastor Kate Mackey: available
Mon.-Thurs. 8:00 am – 2:00 pm
by appointment
608-358-6143 EMAIL
Julia and Ken (try to) take Monday & Saturday as Sabbath days,
Kate Friday and Saturday
Friday is observed as a writing day for the preaching pastor.
In case of a pastoral emergency, please call any of the pastors, as all pastors are available by phone, text and we will always have a pastor on call who we can turn to.
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“Members & Friends of Orchard Ridge UCC“
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Orchard Ridge United Church of Christ
1501 Gilbert Road
Madison, WI 53711
608-271-7212
Office Hours: M-Th 8:30-12:30
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