We wish a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the following members and friends who are celebrating their Aprilbirthdays:
02 - Hope Fair
02 - Matthew Santo
03 - Jennifer Northam
04 - David Hunger
05 - John Pollock Sr.
07 - Michael Grzanka
11 - Patricia Lawrence
18 - Nathan Reindel
26 - Lynn Dunsmore
28 - Steve Livingston
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the children of our church who celebrate a birthday this month:
01 - Hanna Plucinski
We also wish a HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to the following members whose wedding anniversary is in April:
BEST
WISHES
TO YOU
Please Support the Horseback Riding Therapy for Keith
Thank you for supporting the Riding Therapy For Keith Fund. Please keep up your generous support of this worthy cause.
These riding therapy sessions really help Keith feel better after each session and greatly benefit his legs.
The riding sessions are $35 each week. We cover four sessions a month during the winter which amounts to $140 a month. We need your continued financial support to be able to cover the cost each week.
You may not know, but Keith helps Shelley clean the church. He mops the floors and runs the vacuums; he has been helping us behind the scenes for a long time.
You can place your donation into the “Support Keith” box at the rear of the church on the back table, or mail a check to the church, or place it on the plate with a note that says it is for Riding Therapy. Please make the check payable to “First United Church of Christ.
Thank you!
Lost and Found Box
If you’ve left anything behind after worship, look in our Lost & Found Box which is in the furnace room next to the refrigerator.
Call to Care Team:
Mary Alice Busch...586-727-7009
Shelley Champion...586-255-0387
Due to a parishioner allergy:
First United Church of Christ is now a pineapple free zone.
Please refrain from lotions, gums, fruit snacks, fruit juices, perfumes, air fresheners and any other scent or flavoring with pineapple in it.
Please do not bring anything for coffee hour that contains pineapple. This is really serious. Let's all do our best to take care of each other!
Spread the Good News...
We have received $83.80 from Kroger Rewards this quarter!
Are you signed up for our Kroger Community Rewards Program? If not, here’s how to join and start earning rewards for our church:
Register online at krogercommunityrewards.com
- Be sure to have your Kroger Plus card handy and register your card with your organization after you sign up.
- Don’t have a Kroger Plus card? The cards are available at the customer service desk at any Kroger.
- Click on “Sign In/Register.”
- If you are a new online customer, click on “SIGN UP TODAY” in the “New Customer?” box.
- Sign up for a Kroger Rewards Account: enter zip code, click on favorite store, enter your email address, create a password and agree to the terms and conditions.
- You will then get a message to check your email inbox and click on the link within the body of the email.
- Click on “My Account” and use your email address and password to proceed to the next step.
- Click on “Edit Kroger Community Rewards information” and input your Kroger Plus card number.
- Update or confirm your information.
- Enter NPO number (97155) or name of organization, select organization from list and click on confirm.
- To verify you are enrolled correctly, you will see your organization’s name on the right side of your information page.
- REMEMBER, purchases will not count for your group until after you register your card.
- Do you use your phone number at the register? Call 877-576-7587 to get your Kroger Plus card number.
- You must swipe your registered Kroger Plus card or use the phone number that is related to your registered Kroger Plus card when shopping for each purchase to count.
Thank you,
The Community Programs Staff
Our church now offers to “Text” or “Call” UCC members and friends who may not have email to receive important news from our church.
We are working on a new way to keep all our members and friends informed about important news such as the death of someone in our church family. We can continue to communicate such news by email, or we can call or send a text message to your phone.
If you would like to receive text messages regarding church news, please fill out the form below, cut it out and place it on the offering plate or mail it to the church office. Be sure to include the name of your cell phone service provider (ATT, Verizon, Sprint, etc.). If you would rather get an old fashioned phone call, fill in your home phone number and we will relay church announcements with a phone call.
If we do not have your email address, and you would like to receive our church announcements, please fill out the form below, cut and place it on the offering plate or mail it to the church office.
Equal Exchange:
Justice in every cup. Compassion in every bite.
Small Farmers! Big Change!
New products are in!!
Try some honey from Guatemala. Try the new K-cups for your Keurig coffee maker! Try the chocolate chips in your favorite recipe! Try the new chocolate raspberry bar! It is amazing. All products are in the basement of the church. Make your choices and put your money in the silver tin. If you have questions about prices, contact Shelley Champion (248-804-6915).
Equal Exchange's mission is to build long-term trade partnerships that are economically just and environmentally sound, to foster mutually beneficial relationships between farmers and consumers and to demonstrate, through our success, the contribution of worker co-operatives and Fair Trade to a more equitable, democratic and sustainable world.
At Equal Exchange, our longstanding relationships with coffee co-ops allow us to source the best beans from each harvest. Then we carefully bring out the finest characteristics in these amazing coffee beans with each batch we roast.
Equal Exchange chocolates and cocoas are crafted using only the purest ingredients, grown with care by small farmer co-ops. We source from these small farmer organizations because we believe they are the heart and soul of the Fair Trade movement.
Our Fair Trade and organic teas come from our small farmer partners in India, Sri Lanka and South Africa. Most teas on the shelf - even Fair Trade teas - come from plantations where tea workers have little say. Join us in supporting a tea model in which farmers control their futures.
