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Our March Helping Hands offering is for the United Church of Christ’s annual One Great Hour of Sharing, which supports the disaster, refugee, and development ministries of Wider Church Ministries. Click the image above to watch a brief video about the kinds of life-changing ministries supported by our donations.

You can still contribute – either by mailing a check to the church office with the note “Helping Hands” in the memo line, or by giving online (be sure to select “Helping Hands” from the drop down menu).

Thank you for your generosity! Together we can do so much more than we can do alone.

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Donna Morris has been collecting donations for United African Organization, one of our Sanctuary Working Group members, and invites us all to join her in helping to create a generous Ramadan – Ramadan Kareem – for newly arrived Muslim asylum seekers who are celebrating this holy month.

They are in need of the following food supplies:
Rice, white potatoes, sweet potatoes, any kind of dark greens, canned fruit, canned vegetables, dried beans canned beans, bread, couscous, quinoa, onions, garlic, Olive oil, powdered milk, cornmeal, peppers, carrots, celery, hot sauce.

You can bring donated food items to church on Easter,
or give Donna money to shop! 

Your Holy Week bag held a copy of a devotional to use at home this week. Can’t find it? Click here for a digital copy!

On Maundy Thursday – March 28 – please join us
at 7pm in person at Nambu Chapel OR online
for our Tenebrae service.
Music, candlelight, readings and Communion will fill your cup.

Wellington does not hold services on Good Friday – but here are three observances for you to choose from!

• Mennonite Action Chicago, in concert with other Chicago area peace organizations, will be holding a Memorial Vigil service at NOON downtown at Chicago Federal Plaza (Jackson and Dearborn) in memory of the Palestinians killed in Gaza. The vigil will gather around pairs of shoes displayed as symbols of the lives lost, and will include the reading of Gazan victims’ names, personal stories, songs and more, calling for a permanent ceasefire. Wellington is an official co-sponsor of this event!

• University Church Chicago is offering a musical journey through Good Friday, 7 Last Words of Christ by Theodore Dubois, from 5-6pm (in person & online) More info HERE.

• St. Paul’s UCC is offering a Tenebrae service with choir & communion at 7:30pm (in person & online). More info HERE.

If you’re an early riser on Easter Morning, you’ll find your pastor, a Mary Oliver poem, and some freshly baked goods at the lakefront at 6:30am! All are welcome at the pier in Rogers Park (Farwell & the lake).

At 10:30am, we’ll gather in Nambu Chapel (lower level of North Shore Baptist Church, 5244 N. Lakewood Ave) with trumpet! cello! piano! beautiful flowers! and SO MUCH JOY.
Hope to see you there in person – or with us online.

Book Club meets next on April 20th!
Brenda Friedman will facilitate the discussion of Horse: A novel
by Geraldine Brooks.

“A testament to the intelligence and humanity of animals,
a stinging rebuke of racist and abusive humans, and a study of
how the past gets recorded, remembered, and remade . . .
anyone who ever grew up loving horses, anyone who
dearly loves an animal, will find a cornucopia of riches in this novel.”
—Boston Globe

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Music 4 the Soul!

curated by our Music Director, Chris Inserra

This week’s Lenten selection,

What Wondrous Love Is This

calls to us when we are sinking down.

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