Lent is a season that encourages people gathering together to strengthen their friendships and relationships and to join in prayer together. Sun Lakes United Church of Christ would like to invite the Sun Lakes community to join them for Lenten soup and prayer on Wednesdays, March 13 and 27 and April 3 and 17,…
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Religion, February 2019
The challenge of Paul – in search of the historical Paul
Pastor Vernon Meyer of Sun Lakes United Church of Christ will be presenting four classes on the Apostle Paul that will include a short video presentation by the biblical scholar John Dominic Crossan. This is a more progressive view of scripture with a contemporary understanding of the biblical text. Themes will include the historical…
Religion, October 2018
Oberammergua 2020
Pastor Vernon Meyer of Sun Lakes United Church of Christ will lead a tour to the Passion Play in Oberammergau in 2020. The Passion Play is an event held every 10 years to celebrate the end of the plague in the small town of Oberammergau in the Bavarian region of southern Germany. The villagers’…
Religion, October 2018
New musician at Sun Lakes United Church of Christ
Sun Lakes United Church of Christ is proud to announce their new musician, Aida Olarte. The previous musician, Titus Kautz, took a faculty position at the University of North Dakota. Aida began her new work with Sun Lakes UCC in June. Aida Olarte, a native of Colombia, is currently earning a Doctoral of Musical Arts…
Religion, June 2018
New fellowship and worship times at SLUCC
Chuck Reinhart On Sunday, June 3, Sun Lakes United Church of Christ will begin a new schedule for their Sunday fellowship and worship service. Through the months of June, July and August, they will hold their fellowship and worship in the Chapel Center adjacent to the Sun Lakes Chapel. Fellowship will be before the…
Generals, March 2018
Sun Lakes UCC Lent Project gets underway
Chuck Reinhart The children of longtime Sun Lakes resident Shirley Chase kick off the Sun Lakes UCC Lent Project with donations for the needy in her memory. During Lent, the Sun Lakes United Church of Christ is collecting items that cannot be purchased with subsidies from government assistance. These donations will be delivered to the…
Religion, February 2018
A project for Lent
Chuck Reinhart The Lenten season begins with Ash Wednesday on February 14, 2018. The members of the Sun Lakes United Church of Christ will be collecting items each Sunday during Lent to distribute to the less fortunate. We are asking for donations of items that cannot be bought with money from government subsidies. Instead…
Religion, February 2018
Falling Upward – Spirituality in the second half of life
Chuck Reinhart In some church traditions, Lent is focused on penance and sin and the practice of giving up things as a form of sacrifice. Lent in the ancient tradition of the church was about the rites and rituals that prepared individuals for Baptism at Easter. Richard Rohr, a Franciscan and a Roman Catholic…
Generals, October 2017
Dinners Galore Raffle
Barbara Reiss It’s our 7th annual Restaurant Raffle. The Sun Lakes Chapel is running a raffle, all of the proceeds of which will go to the maintenance of the Chapel and Chapel Center which hosts four congregations: The Sun Lakes Community Church, the Sun Lakes Jewish Congregation, the Sun Lakes Lutheran Church and the Sun…
Clubs & Classes, September 2017
Introducing our new director of music – Erin Glenn
It is with great pleasure that we announce that a new Director of Music has been hired for Sun Lakes United Church of Christ. Erica Glenn will begin her new role with us in September. Erica is coming to the Phoenix area to begin a three-year Doctoral program at Arizona State University in Choral Conducting.…