Family Service Day
Saturday, Oct. 5, 12:30 pm
Central families and friends are invited to join CCC Youth at Church Beyond the Walls for worship and lunch. This remarkable street-church community builds solidarity among people from all walks of life: housed and unhoused, poor and privileged, churched and unchurched. Questions? Contact Susannah. We’ll meet at 275 North Main Street in Providence. And, mark your calendar for our next Family Service Days on Nov. 2 and 30.
Fruits of the Spirit Gatherings
Tuesday, Oct. 1, 10 am
This month we’ll continue to explore Paul’s Fruits of the Spirit – love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control –and what they mean for us today. Just sign up in Chapel Hall! We’ll meet at Caroline Johnson’s home. And mark your calendar for our next meeting Thursday, Oct. 17, 6:30 pm, at Tracy Baran’s home.
Tuesdays With Scripture
Tuesday, Oct. 1, 8 am
Our weekly community devotional resumes this month! Every Tuesday morning, we’ll meet via Zoom to discuss a short Bible passage. Contact Claudia for a Zoom invitation. She’ll also send you the reading and questions to consider ahead of time. Each session is self-contained. Come to one or to all of them!
Blessing Bags Project
Sunday, Oct. 6, 11:30 am
CCC Youth is assembling hygiene kits that they’ve termed “Blessing Bags” for Better Lives Rhode Island – a non-profit that helps unhoused individuals find shelter and much-needed services. You can support our youth in this endeavor by donating hygiene products on our Amazon Blessing Bags Wish List and by helping assemble the Blessing Bags on Sunday, Oct. 6, after Worship, in Chapel Hall. Contact Morgan Johnson or Cheryl Ludwig, CCC Youth volunteers, for more information.
Mission & Action Luncheon
Sunday, Oct. 6, 11:30 am
The Mission & Action committee’s mission luncheon features guest speakers Shirley Hardison and Suzanne Swanson, co-chairs of the Haiti Task Force. The Haiti Task Force – a mission of the Southern New England Conference UCC and long-time Central mission partner – has been providing education, health care, orphan relief, spiritual support, and community-based services for more than 30 years. Lunch will be a simple soup and bread supper. Join us in Chapel Hall.
Gallery Opening
Friday, Oct. 4, 5 pm
This month, the Gallery at Central presents “Elemental Echoes: An Exploration of Color and Time,” by Providence artist Hollybeth Runco. This exhibit includes a variety of landscapes and waterscapes that juxtapose Hollybeth’s dynamic use of color and passion for palette knife work with refined brushwork – giving viewers insight into her artistic evolution over the past six years. Come, meet the artist!