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Up-Coming UCHP Events
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United! Sharing and Experiencing God's Love Committee is planning to host Pop-Up Holiday Movie in December. We would love our church family and friends to join us for fun and fellowship. Share with us which Holiday movie you would LOVE to watch. A Christmas Carol, Home Alone, It's Wonderful Life are just a few of the many Holidays' classic.
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These gifts could be given to Bethany House of Hospitality and children at her establishment. Gifts would be unwrapped, and wrapping paper included. A box for children’s donations of toys, etc., is placed in the sanctuary. Please leave your gifts there by the end of December.
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Transgender Awareness Week event from the community
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Brave Space Alliance, Chicago Therapy collective, and Life is Work, with support from The Human Rights Campaign, Affinity, Chicago Black Gay Men’s Caucus, Lighthouse Foundation, Chicago Department of Public Health, Equality Illinois, and Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation (SOUL), will be hosting a “Trans Weekend of Resilience”. As an effort to reclaim and reframe November 20th as a day to acknowledge our trans siblings that we've lost while simultaneously acknowledging the resilience of our community, this 3-day event will take place from November 18-20th, 2022. More information on Facebook event page (click link).
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Presbytery of Chicago (Presbyterian Church, USA) gathered on November 15 online, the last time in 2022. There were 162 delegates attended the assembly. Moderator, Rev. David Thornton, invited all the delegates to the Communion Table before the business sections. We also celebrated Rev. Jane Tuma's retirement from Morgan Park Presbyterian Church. At the assembly, the delegate approved (1) Rev. José Muñiz-Agrón to be installed as the full time pastor at Clement Presbyterian Church, Cicero, (2) updated Family Leave Guideline, a minimum of 12 weeks of family leave, according to the up-coming PCUSA General Assembly's Amendment to the Constitution (Book of Order), (3) sell the Parkview Presbyterian Church in Oak Park property to Jon Kubricht, for a Montessori School usage, for $510,000, and (4) 2023 Presbytery Budget of $1,473,118, based on 2023 Pre Capital Rate $36.50. The next assembly will be on February 28, 2023. For more information, please visit Presbytery of Chicago website (click the link).
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Hyde Park and Kenwood Interfaith Council will host the Thanksgiving Celebration at Rockefeller Chapel on Thursday, November 24, at 11 am. This is the biggest annual event and fundraising campaign of the Interfaith Council. Our church has been a core member of it for years. If you would like to attend the Thanksgiving Celebration, you can find more details on its website (click link).
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