ITLOTC
(In The Life Of The Church)
Pentecost
On Divine Foreknowledge & Human Freedom
Meet the UBCer(s)
the Poolers
CCMS Volunteers
CCMS Volunteer OpportunitiesWe have some great volunteer opportunities coming up at Cesar Chavez Middle School. The first, is our longstanding Lunch Buddies program. This is a mentoring program, in which you go have lunch with your buddy once a week at CCMS. The school reached out recently, and they have identified 23 students who could use a mentor. Next, we are helping out with CCMS Fall Festival this year on October 13th. Look for sign-up sheets starting this Sunday for the Lunch Buddy program and the Fall Festival. If you have any questions, please email toph@ubcwaco.org
Church Hurts
Full disclosure. I, Josh Carney, have not listened to one minute of the Mars Hill podcast produced by Christianity Today. A friend sent me a helpful email this last week with some of the criticism of the podcast. I’m grateful he did. In short, the concern is that the podcast does not center or seek out voices of those who were actual victims of what happened at Mars Hill and instead has centers and given platform to some of those abusive voices. Point taken. Let me offer a word then about what I’m hoping for. First, churches hurt people including UBC. In the spirit of that, I want to give space both for folks to tell their own stories of hurt and disappointment, but also listen keenly so that I might learn and think of ways to improve UBC. Second, we want to also take the opportunity to celebrate the good things and be excited about the good experiences that people are having and have had with church. So if either of those things feel like they would be helpful, then I hope you’ll consider coming. Our second meeting is this Wednesday at 6:00 @ UBC. Participants should listen to the first episode.
A Word from our HR Chair Erin
October 10th is Pastor Appreciation Day and the HR team has coordinated an opportunity to write notes of appreciation to show love to the pastoral staff at UBC. If you are unable to join us to write a physical note on Sunday mornings, you can use this google form to submit a note for each pastor, and HR team will print it out and make sure that the staff member receives it. If you have any questions, feel free to email Erin Hill at erin.albin1@gmail.com
Upcoming Events
Weekly Pints with Toph @ Pinewood on Wednesdays from 6-8 P.M.
Weekly coffee with Toph @ Pinewood on Thursdays from 8-10 A.M.
10/4 St. Francis Liturgy
10/10 nUBCers Lunch
10/13 Liturgy of Gratitude
10/22 Parents Night Out
11/2 All Saints/All Souls Liturgy
11/5-7 Fall retreat for college students
11/7 Bonfire
11/14 Lovefeast
12/9-10 Study Hall
Leadership Team
If you have a concern or an idea for UBC that you’d like to share with someone that is not on staff, feel free to contact one of our leadership team members.
Chair: Kathy Krey kathykrey@gmail.com
Ben Raley: Benjaminrale y@gmail.com
Bryce Sandvall: Bryce@holeintheroof.com
Katie Valenzuela: KatarinaEValenzuela@gmail.com
Luci Hoppe: lhoppe@gmail.com
Jose Zuniga: jzgrphix2002@yahoo.com
Taylor Torregrossa: Taylordtorregrossa@gmail.com
Student Position: Davis Misloski
Student Position: Maddy O’Shaughnessy
UBC Finance Team
Do you have a question about UBC’s financial affairs? Please feel free to contact any of your finance team members.
Catherine Ballas: catherine@refitrev.com
Jen Carron: jen.carron78@gmail.com
Mike Dodson: financeteammike@gmail.com
George Thornton: GeorgecCT1982@gmail.com
UBC HR Team
If you have concerns about staff and would like contact our human resources team, please feel free to email any of the following members.
Erin Hill: erin.albin1@gmail.com
Sam Goff: samuelgoff92@gmail.com
Craig Nash: Craig_Nash@baylor.edu
Kristen Howerton: khowerton94@gmail.com
Patrick Broaddus: patrickjbroaddus@gmail.com