Welcome!
Join Us for Worship: In-person or via Livestream
Sunday Mornings: 10:00 (Musical Prelude begins at 9:50)
Education Hour for Adults and Children: Sundays after Worship
"No matter who you are, or where you are on life's journey, you are welcome here."
We are a progressive, open and affirming congregation of the United Church of Christ, rooted in God's love, mercy and justice.
We are a community of growing families, couples and singles, kids and teens, young adults, mid-lifers and grandparents... and we celebrate our diversity of spiritual background, sexual orientation, race and abilities.
Join us for worship and celebration in person on Sundays, via livestream on our YouTube channel, and on Wednesday evenings, when we share a brief Vespers service on Facebook.
We look forward to meeting you! No matter how you join us, we hope you will find music that is inspiring, sermons that are relevant, and a community that is genuinely welcoming.
Welcome to CHUCC! We're glad you are here.
UCC Global H.O.P.E. has launched the Turkey and Syria Emergency Appeal to direct financial support to partners responding in the areas of greatest need for relief and long-term recovery.
Click the link above to donate online.(Donation link is at the bottom of the page)
Text: UCCDISASTER to 41444
Mail: Checks made payable to the United Church of Christ, PO BOX 71957 Cleveland, OH 44194.
Please be sure to note “Turkey and Syria” on your check in the memo section.
Welcome to Virtual Worship at Cedar Hills UCC
~ Sunday, March 19, 2023 ~
Fourth Sunday of Lent
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Welcome and Life of the Church: Rev. Mary Sue Evers
Centering Music: Colin Shepard
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Call to Worship and Invocation: Ann Farley
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Time With Children: Mary Sue Evers
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Scripture: Matthew 7:1-5
Sermon: Mary Sue Evers
"Shake Hands with Your Shadow"
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Choral Reflection: I Am Sending You Light (Melanie Demore)
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Music: Colin Shepard and CHUCC Choir
PASSING OF THE PEACE
We invite you to light a candle with us during the Passing of the Peace
INVOCATION
March 19th
O Holy Spirit, Breath of God, blow in our lives this day.
Clear out the cobwebs of closed minds and timid ideas. Fill us with the freshness of your living love. Cleanse and renew us that we might go from this place ready to be your people in the world.
We ask this in the name of Jesus, our peace and our hope, and we pray in his spirit, saying --
Our Father and Mother who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen
OFFERING INVITATION
We offer several different ways to make your offering:
TEXT to 503-212-9361
MAIL to the CHUCC office
CONNECTING HOUR
Sunday March 19th
Coffee Hour -and-
**Waffle Bar Fundraiser for CHUCC Youth**
Please join us for coffee, conversation, light refreshments and Waffles (!) following Worship
Adult Ed: Grab a waffle and join Leann Hall to explore Step Three of Karen Armstrong’s "Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life".
Today: "Compassion for Self" (Brown-Blackwell Room)
Newcomers Church Tour and Luncheon: Meet Mary Sue in the Sanctuary, followed by a light luncheon (Niebuhr Room)