Thanksgiving Day potluck + film at Beloved 3-6 PM
Advent + Christmas concerts each Sunday at Beloved!
Join us each Sunday evening during Advent for special musical celebrations!
Sunday, November 29th, 6:00 PM: Featuring Alvin “Cornbread” Garrett + David Sea of the Temptations Review
Sunday, December 6th: Featuring Perfect Praise + Mark Kelly
Sunday, December 13th: Joint UCC Christmas service with special guests from Pilgrim UCC, Covenant Community Church + First Congregational UCC. Continue reading Advent + Christmas concerts each Sunday at Beloved!
Lessons from the early church: learning to listen
Imagine that you are part of a small church. Imagine that your small church is racially and culturally diverse.
Some people in the church have ancestral roots in the land where you live and the others come from foreign lands.
Some speak one language and the others speak another.
Some come from the dominant religious background and the others come from another.
One group has historically had the upper hand of privilege. The other has historically been looked down upon and denied basic human rights.
I’m talking about the earliest church. It’s their story as much as it is ours.
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She Matters forum at First Congregational UCC
WHAT: An open forum engaging the community-at-large, community organizations and community leadership in healthy discussion concerning the documented incidences of police brutality involving African American women in 2015 around the United States.
WHEN: Saturday, November 14, 2015, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE: First Congregational Church, 1024 Center St. North, Birmingham, AL 35204
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Interfaith service for fair lending November 4th
“A Generous Faith” Conference November 5th-6th
The Magic City Acceptance Project’s Communities of Faith Committee and the Human Rights Campaign Alabama invite you to the inaugural “A Generous Faith: Walking With Our LGBTQ+ Community” conference on November 5-6 at Temple Emanu-El and Highlands United Methodist Church in Birmingham.
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Recycling Summit at Beloved Tuesday, November 10th
Yoga for Recovery, now at Beloved
“My Brooklyn” film screening Tuesday, October 20th, 7 pm
A note from Angie: looking ahead
I am not a planner. That probably doesn’t come as a surprise to many of you.
When it comes to travel I make all my plans at the last minute and I make sure they are flexible because who knows what might come up to alter your plans.
In a way, I take heart in my lack of planning. The old saying makes sense to me, that “when people plan, God laughs.”
I’m not much of a planner but when I look back on my life, it makes sense. Even with all the mistakes I have made along the way, I can see some intelligent design, and the intelligence is not mine.
