The IUCC Chancel Choir’s Spring Concert 2018 celebrated all the things people love about IUCC: beautiful music sung from the heart and dedicated to our UCC designations. We are an open and affirming, just peace, global mission and creation justice congregation. You’ll know exactly what that means after you listen
Continue readingWe care. That was the theme for both Pastor Paul’s sermon that highlighted the career of retiring church administrator Michael Spindle and the early service sermon from Pastor Sarah.
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Among those touring the new addition construction before Sunday night’s Spring Concert were Webelos Pac 654, who also achieved the fifth requirement for their Built It Adventure badges. They learned about a career in construction from their tour guide and our project manager, Jason Buchleitner. They also asked a lot
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Longtime administrator Michael Spindle will be leaving at the end of June. As difficult as it will be to replace him, the answer was under our own nose. Michael worked very well with Steve Swope, and he was sure that Steve would be a good “fit.” Our moderator, Renae, Admin
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May 4, 2018 Dear Friends, Please join us on Sunday, May 20th for our Annual Spring Congregational Meeting. The meeting will follow immediately after the 11:00 service. Highlights of the meeting will include: Discussion and voting on a proposed bylaws change, an update on the Building Project, ratification of
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The Rev. Paul Tellström began his sermon with a description of a 10-year-old and his mother talking about an active-shooter drill in schools and ties it to the procession into Jerusalem known as Palm Sunday and the rope around the donkey. What, he asks, is holding us back?
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The Rev. Ken Wyant and the Rev. Paul Tellström, senior pastor at IUCC, looked at all sides of the “aid in dying” issue during the Sunday sermon. A clip from NBC News about Brittany Maynard, whose story sparked the resolution offered at last summer’s UCC General Synod in support of
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What does it mean to be an immigrant-welcoming church? Pastor Sarah Fiske-Phillips looks beyond the political aspects and reframes the question in terms of the extravagant welcome we strive for as Christians. “What we can all do is sit down with a cup of coffee … and tell people they
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For parents, grandparents, all of us, the recent violence in Florida has become just too difficult to bear. In this Lenten series sermon, the Rev. Dr. Paul Tellström looks at the UCC “Resolution on Gun Violence: Exploring a Public Health Emergency.” It calls for a lifting on restrictions on research
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Pastor Sarah Fiske-Philips draws on her recent experiences as an ER chaplain and recent discussions about what might bring people her age into the church to explain the value of tradition while embracing newness.
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