Beloved Happenings - 2024
Communion Service Training
In May, we will be doing four weeks of Communion Service Training/Practice. This will give us several backups if Rev. Eileen is sick or wants to go on vacation!
Book Study
This summer we will be spending time discussing Richard Rohr's book, Falling Upward.
Ice Cream Social
This July, we will again be in the park to gather together, socialize, and hand out ice cream to all passers-by. It's a great chance to get to know each other and do something fun for the community.
Pot Luck & Board Meeting
We gathered together the first Wednesday of April to enjoy a meal together, talk over what we had done in the first three months of the year and make plans for the next few months. We had some wonderful BarBQ, and put together a plan for the rest of the spring and summer!
We took the rest of the Wednesday's in April off to recover from an event filled Lent and Holy Week, we will be ready to get back together on Wednesday nights in May.
Lenten Study - the Seventh Story Podcast
In March, we completed the second half of our Lenten Study, The Seventh Story Podcast. The stories we covered were The Victimization Stories, The Accumulation Stories, and The Seventh Story. You can find out more about the podcast at The Seventh Story Podcast
Holy Week
For Holy Week, we were busy! We held a foot washing service on Holy Thursday, a Stations of the Cross service on Good Friday, and then we had Easter Services on Easter Sunday.
Lenten Study - The Seventh Story Podcast
In February, we started our Lenten Study, The Seventh Story Podcast. The stories we covered were The Domination Stories, The Revolution Stories, The Purification Stories, and The Isolation Story. We examined how we see these stories in our lives and ways we can interact differently.
You can find out more about the podcast at The Seventh Story Podcast
New Additions to our Media Presence
In February, we added Zoom access to our Masses for those who were either traveling or unable to make it in person. Along with our Zoom masses, came recordings of Rev. Eileen's homilies, which can now be found at our YouTube page
Pot luck and Craft Night
We gathered the First Wednesday in January for a craft night. We made hand made cards for sending to people as needed as well as making up name tags for those of us with name issues :)
Visit from the Urbana Neighborhood Connections Center
We gathered with representatives from the Urbana Neighborhood Connections Center to hear about their gathering space for at need kids after school and during the summer.
Discerning
We gathered together after our visit from the UNCC to make some plans as to how we can be a positive influence in our new community. We have decided to volunteer once a week at UNCC, donate to their "closet" things that the kids might need (school supplies, clothes, and food), help them get their garden up and growing in the spring as well as set up our own garden at the Mary Magdalene Center.