Union Grove
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Ministries
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Union Grove offers many opportunities to serve God and the community through a variety of ministries. Whether your gifts lie in playing with the Holy Rollers praise band, cooking at the homeless shelter, or traveling with the youth to rebuild homes in Mississippi, you can find your place at Union Grove.
Worship
Sunday morning worship is at 10 am, followed by a fellowship time and Sunday School. On the first Sunday of each month, we celebrate Holy Communion during the service and have a covered-dish luncheon after the service. A nursery is available during the service.
We also have special worship services on Ash Wednesday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter, Thanksgiving Eve, and Christmas Eve.
Outreach
Project Compassion Care Teams
Several care teams have formed out of concern for people we know who have special needs:
Elizabeth's Friends: This team provided support for the family of a young girl with Batten's Disease.
Visitation: This team visits with shut-ins and makes sure they have what they need.
Faith Team: This team agrees to works for one year with a prisoner who has just been released and provides support for a smooth transition back into society.
Front Porch Ministries (Hospitality and Welcome)
Front porches used to be one of life’s most important locations. Whether you lived in town and the proximity of your front porch to the sidewalk quite naturally entwined your life with that of your neighbor’s, or you lived outside of town and had to be more intentional about gathering: the front porch was the place for sitting, rocking, swinging, waxing eloquent, and just plain sharing life.
We are blessed at Union Grove to share a ministry setting of over twenty acres. Beautiful trees, a spring, a wonderful playground, open fields, great facilities, an amphitheatre, a soon-to-be-constructed covered picnic area, and plans for lots more—our campus is a holy and sacred place where community can gather, worship, and share life.
Front Porch Ministries seeks to reach out to our community, to invite and welcome folks to come and share the hospitality and spirit that is Union Grove UMC. If there is something stirring in your heart, if your soul longs for God’s presence, we invite you to come and join with us as together we seek to discern and answer God’s moving in our lives.
Regular Activities:
- Providing hospitality and welcome at all church gatherings
We prepare welcome/activity bags for the children and have a “Front Porch” welcome center to share information and invitation to all visitors and guests. We want our church to have an intentional atmosphere of hospitality and welcome for all. - Providing intentional outreach and invitation to our community
We maintain a church Web site, publish information about our mission and ministry opportunities and special activities, and open our facilities to community groups and gatherings. - Celebrating and remembering “rites of passage” in the lives of our
children, youth, and adults
These include birth, baptism, confirmation, birthdays, graduations, marriage, and death. - Cornerstone College Outreach
This is an Intentional outreach to our college students and college-aged young
adults. We send care packages twice each semester and hold special events and gatherings during the holidays and summer.
Prison Ministry
Various groups in the church take turns providing snacks for the inmates who attend the Yokefellows meetings at the Orange County Correctional Center in Hillsborough.
Interfaith Council Homeless Shelter
Members who enjoy cooking for a crowd get together on the fourth Sunday of every other month to cook dinner for the homeless people staying at the shelter on Rosemary Street in Chapel Hill.
Adopt-a-Highway
This group gets together four mornings a year to enjoy a walk down our quiet country road while picking up trash.
Youth
United Methodist Youth Fellowship (UMYF)
Youth in middle school and high school meet each Sunday at 4:30 pm for a program and dinner. Each summer, the high school youth go on a mission trip. They have participated in the Appalachian Service Project, rebuilt homes devastated by Hurricanes Rita and Katrina in Pass Christian, Mississippi; Cameron Parrish, Louisiania; and Grand Bay, Alabama, and worked on homes in Oak Hill, West Virginia. They attend Burlington District youth events such as the annual Lock-in, Youth Rally, and the Chicken Pickin' Finger Lickin' Frisbee Fun Day.
Christian Children's Fellowship (CCF)
Children from kindergarten through fifth grade meet each Sunday at 4:30 pm for a program and dinner. Activities include crafts, music, games, and stories.
Confirmation Class
Youth in sixth grade are invited to meet with Pastor Rich for a series of classes in which they discuss and ask questions about what it means to join the church.
Music
Chancel Choir
Join the choir on Thursday nights at 7 pm for a time of singing, laughing, and legendary coffee. No musical talent required—just a desire to make a joyful noise!
Holy Rollers Praise Band
Guitarist Pastor Rich invites anyone with a love for God and jamming to join him and the Holy Rollers as they practice their tunes.
Education
Sunday School
At 11:30 am (following the worship service and the coffee and fellowship time), we meet for Sunday School. We have classes for pre-kindergarten through adults.
Vacation Bible School
A highlight of the summer is our Vacation Bible School which is held during the early evening hours so that children and adults can participate.
Bible Study
The Wednesday morning Bible study group meets regularly at 9:30 am throughout the year. Other groups form and meet for several months at a time to study a specific topic or book.
Last modified:
January 11, 2012
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