Worship Resources for Sunday, May 5, 2024

Orchard Ridge UCC on May 4, 2024

Orchard Ridge

United Church of Christ

Sunday Worship Resources

Sunday, May 5, 2024

Sixth Sunday of Easter

8:30 a.m. Supported Nursery Care in Crossroads

9:00 a.m. – Sunday School for Children and Youth

9:00 a.m. – For Adults – Java & Jesus

10:00 am – Worship

Preaching: Julia Burkey

Lay Liturgist: Jennifer Hahn

Music: ORUCC Choir

11am – After Worship:

Worship and Work Sunday!

Immediately following the worship service there will be opportunities for everyone to help with inside and outside projects.

Wear your grubbies to church. Bring your work gloves, your energy, wheelbarrows, shovels, rakes (for spreading mulch), dandelion diggers, pruners and garden shears, if you plan to work outdoors.

Plan to enjoy lunch in Fellowship Hall

with your friends and family.

3:30 pm Confirmation-Lower Level

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Join our Worship virtually

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For Children & Youth – April 28th

Children

8:30 Supported Childcare: Jade will be available to assist families with young children in The Crossroads.

All children (PreK-5) will gather at 9 am in the William Johnson Room for music. After the singing, we will tour the gardens outside with Jill to learn more about the ORUCC Veggie Village and Rain Garden. We might even have a chance to get our hands dirty; aka, come in your grubbies for Work and Worship Day!

May 5: Work and Worship

May 19: Confirmation Sunday

June 2: End of Programming Year Celebration

Music Connections: This week the children will begin the 10 o’clock hour downstairs in the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Room. We’ve made great progress in our guided meditation project and will use the entire time before communion to review our music. Bethany S. will be our Safe Sanctuary volunteer.

Would you believe that there are ONLY THREE remaining Music Connections of this programming year?! Julie Mazer is in need of a Safe Sanctuary volunteer on May 12. Can you assist? https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0944A5AB2B0-20231#/

Youth

This Sunday, Susan and Kristin will lead our youth through another session of Echo with the Psalms at 9:00 a.m. TRU Function practices 10:00-noon. It is Work & Worship Sunday: please consider staying after worship to help work on the building and grounds! Confirmation will meet downstairs 3:30-5:30 p.m., with Pastor Julia joining us.

Mark your calendars!

May 19: Confirmation Sunday (no Sunday school)
May 26: Memorial Day weekend (no Sunday school)
May 27: Service Trip Meeting, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
June 2: Sundae Sunday: End-of-year celebration and Senior recognition in worship, TRU Function leads worship.

Service Trip Updates:

Please sign up for a shift at Brat Fest (May 24-26)! This is an important fundraiser to help us get over the finish line on fundraising. There are many different kinds of jobs available; set-up for the event begins as early as two weeks from now.

Java & Jesus

Sunday, May 5, at 9 am

Attend in-person at the church in the

Alfred Swan Room, or attend remotely

by Zoom

Jeanne Moberly facilitating

All are welcome!

Join us even if this is your first time!

Please read ahead of time and come prepared

to discuss excerpts from “Becoming Wise — An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living,” by Krista Tippett.

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MAY COMPASSION OFFERING

Showing Compassion for Children in Gaza

Our May Compassion Offering – Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) — was identified and recommended by the ORUCC Palestine Justice Mission Team. After researching and considering many options, the Team unanimously approved sponsoring MECA as the Compassion Offering, in light of the current, urgent situation in Gaza. MECA has staff on site in Gaza to respond immediately and directly upon receiving our support.

MECA was founded in 1988 in Berkeley, California as a private, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to deliver vital supplies and humanitarian services to children in Gaza. As MECA’s work has progressed over the years, its activities have included providing direct aid to refugee children in Lebanon and Iraq; water projects in Gaza that bring clean water for children and their families; assistance to community organizations that help meet Palestinian children’s needs; scholarships for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank; and educational/cultural programs in the USA to increase understanding about the lives of children in the Middle East and the impact of US foreign policy on people in the region.

Compassion Offering funds raised in May will be directed entirely to MECA’s emergency appeal for the humanitarian needs of Gazan children and their families. Our donations will quickly provide food, water, healthcare and shelter for children in Gaza who are hungry, injured, orphaned and/or homeless.

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Thank you for giving generously

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/