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Join us at Mill Run as we cheer on Team USA in the gold medal matches and races on our giant LED screen!

Bring your lawn chair and enjoy popsicles, water games, and relay races. There's fun for everyone, and friends are welcome!

🗓️ Saturday, August 10
🕒 2:00-5:00 PM
📍 Mill Run

This is a FREE outdoor event, but registration is required so UALC can prepare to host another unforgettable day for our community.

Head to ualc.org/millrun and get your ticket now. Let’s come together and cheer on Team USA!

What do you think or feel when you hear the word “us”? Does anyone specific come to mind? Do you feel included? Or excluded? Glad for company or ready for alone time? Did your church family come to mind? In August and September we’re going to learn how Jesus creates his people to be the best kind of “us.” And we’re going to focus on Jesus’ work in this specific community called UALC. Join us each week during this sermon series to grow in faith and love, in Christ together. 📖 ❤️ 🔍

In-person services at 9 and 11 am. Or online beginning at 9 am at ualc.org/worship.

We're thrilled to have 115 participants joining us at Family Camp! Please keep this special time in your prayers, asking for blessings and spiritual growth for all. 🌞 🌊 🙏

Family Camp is about to begin! Your prayers for the 115 peoples attending are valuable! May God bless this time set aside for Him.

Friendship Bible Class: We are a Family!

Community, friendship, laughter, and Bible Study are overflowing at Friendship Bible Class (FBC). We meet on first and third Wednesdays, delving into a Scripture lesson, a time of prayer, crafts, snacks and worship.

Once you come to FBC, you are a part of the family. Molly Martin is one of our FBC friends. She loves attending as it is a safe place where she is loved unconditionally and has fellowship with her friends. Molly brings her guitar and loves to play for the class during worship time. Her friends find this to be a real treat. Josh Valentino’s warm personality is inviting to others as soon as they arrive in the room. There is never a lack of laughter when he is in the room. Josh is a man of prayer. His friends regularly ask that he lead our prayer time. Bethany Wilson is our class encourager. When she isn’t sharing about sports, she is complimenting, sharing a hug or shouting a “good job” to her friends.

Our volunteers, Barb Winter, Kristi Rose, Brynna Rose, Nancy Walton, and Rachel Sutton love sharing their time with our class. They didn’t all feel like they were “equipped” to serve our friends with disabilities, but qu**ky found that God equips those he calls. Barb shared that she feels we are “differently abled” in our own ways and once we realize that we are all created just as God wanted us to be, we find purpose and meaning as well as our place in God’s family.

The genuine love, care, and acceptance in the room is like none other. Each person is part of God’s plan; he created each of us in a unique way, and together, we are his masterpieces who come together to make a whole family, God’s family. Come find out why Friendship Bible Class is an oasis and you will be refreshed and feel the presence of the Lord each and every week.

Join us in prayer:
Let us be faithfully in prayer for President Trump, his staff and his family, and for the families of those killed, injured and traumatized in the attack. Let us also be praying for President Biden and all other candidates for office at our city, state and national level. What we witnessed brings home the danger these public servants put themselves in, and it is right for us to pray for their safety, and for comfort for them and loved ones who now face greater fear. And let’s be praying for our nation – for peace, kindness, and neighborliness even through this election cycle where differences of opinion are strong. This is a moment where we as a country can seek both repentance and healing.

Read the full message from Pastor Steve here: https://mailchi.mp/ualc.org/turnbull-update-240714

Join us for our second event in the Mill Run Summer Fun Series. It's our Worship Night and Pie Baking Contest on July 12! 🥧 🎶 We'll be outside on our lawn (or inside if it rains), with our worship band and a friendly pie bake off. It's free but let us know you're coming by registering at ualc.org/millrun. 🎉

We pray for our nation:
Father God, we thank you for the many blessings that we enjoy as a nation. Fruitful lands, good laws, and many freedoms. Please give us leaders who are righteous, honest, and that seek justice for all. And we pray for ourselves, that we would be a people who pursue virtue and all good with our neighbors, that we would use the freedoms we have according to your will and your wisdom. May this country be a blessing to all people and use us, Lord, to further your kingdom. Amen.

A new sermon series starts this Sunday called "Sabbath." You've probably heard "Remember the Sabbath Day by keeping it holy.” Of all the Ten Commandments, this may be the one we are proudest to break. We are non-stop. We are busy. We are productive. And sometimes, we can’t even help it; this is just what life requires of us. But is it what God requires or wants of us? Is it what God wants for us? Or for the people we love? What if Sabbath isn’t just something God requires but something God gives us, and something God does for us? Join us for this series as we explore the Biblical gift of Sabbath.
See you at 9:00 or 11:00 am in-person, or online: https://www.youtube.com/

We are having so, so, so much fun learning from Jesus' parables, singing, dancing, playing (with a rubber chicken!), creating art, making friends, and so much more. We have more photos to share, so stay tuned! 🥳 👏 ✝

Today at VBS, the children learned about the parable of the dinner guests from Luke 14:15-24, and how God sometimes invites everyone to grow and learn with him, but sometimes people turn him down. They also learned that when we accept his invitation to grow and learn with him, we are loved and treated with the best care in his family.

We can hardly wait for Day 2! ualc.org/vbs

We can hardly wait! Vacation Bible School is this week. Kids will be learning five of Jesus’ parables all the while having huge amounts of fun. Please join us in praying for an amazing week for the hundreds of kids, teens, families, and volunteers.

We can hardly wait! VBS starts tomorrow! Kids will be arriving at UALC for exciting activities, art projects, recreation time, music, and so much more. Please pray for a faith-building week for the hundreds of kids, teens, families, and volunteers who will fill our Mill Run Campus.

It's not too late to come. We're taking walk-in registrations. Some of the morning classes are full, but we have more space in the afternoon session. ualc.org/vbs

Our Lytham Road community is hosting its annual Prayer Service and Cookout on June 30! 👏 It starts with a potluck at 5:30 pm followed by a service praying for our country. Please bring a side dish if you're able. 🍉🍴 🌭
Just let Pastor Joe or Tammy know if you're coming on Sunday or at ualc.org/stayconnected.

"We are, in so many meaningful ways, very much like sheep under the care and watchful eye of our Good Shepherd."

Read the full Daily Worship devotional from Dan Kidd here:
https://www.ualc.org/post/june-11-1-peter-2-22-25

That was fun! Thanks to all those who came out and those who helped to make it happen. Shawn had us laughing and that potluck was legit. UALC Mill Run Shawn Reynolds

Join us for food and laughs this Friday as we kick-off our Mill Run Summer Fun Series! The cookout begins at 5:30 pm, 🌭 followed by nationally touring comedian, Shawn Reynolds at 6:30 pm. 😂 Bring friends (and a lawn chair). And it's all free but please register at ualc.org/millrun so we can get the food prepared.

If you would like time to hear what's happening in the life of our church and have time for Q&A, come have pizza with Pastor Steve this Thursday evening.

Join us for a night of great food and laughter with nationally touring comedian Shawn Reynolds! It’s a free event, free dinner, but please register on our website. It’s the kickoff to a summer of fun! Bring a lawn chair or blanket.

⏰ Reminder: All worship is at the Mill Run Campus this Sunday and next, at 9:00 and 11:00 am, because of construction. We can't wait to join together and worship as one big family! See you on May 19 and 26 for a blended-style worship of traditional and modern. 🕍 🎶

🥕 🍅 🌱 Did you know the Mill Run Community Garden produced over 24,000 lbs of organic produce last year to feed to our neighbors?
It's now time to prepare for this season and 4,000 plants need to be put in the ground over the next three Saturdays (May 11, 18, 25). We'd love your help! We’ll start at 9:00 am and have a potluck picnic at noon. Come out and join us on the south lawn of our Mill Run Campus: 3500 Mill Run Drive, Hilliard, OH, 43026. 🌻 🌿

🙏 2024 National Prayer:
Jesus, we profess our faith in You. You are the Light of the world, and in You there is no darkness. For You are our lamp, O LORD, and our God who lights our darkness. Forgive us for fearing and focusing on the darkness around us instead of being filled with faith and shining like the city on a hill You have called us to be. Forgive us for the times when we have been the absence of light, allowing darkness to dwell in America. Lead us forward to dispel the darkness and bring light throughout the Church, Family, Education, Business, Military, Government, and Arts, Entertainment, and Media.

We are saved by grace through faith, released from the darkness that once held us captive and now free to walk in the newness of life in You. Light dispels darkness and exposes what is hidden and wicked, so we commit to rise and shine! For by You, Lord, we can take courage to run against the enemy, and by our God we can fight the good fight and keep the faith as living lampstands in our communities and country. We fear no evil for You are with us.

Lord, Your way is perfect, You lead us on paths of righteousness for Your name's sake. Your Word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. Your Word is Truth, instructing and inspiring us to live in the abundant life You gave when You saved us from the death and destruction of the enemy. Fill us with Truth as we read, study, and live Your Word.

God, You are a shield for all those who take refuge in You. As we abide in You and Your Word abides in us, we take up our shield of faith and the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God and run boldly into the darkness to Lift Up the Word and Light Up the World!

In the Mighty name of Jesus we pray, amen! 🙏

"This is Jesus’ welcome to the sinner who returns. This is his welcome to each of us who return again and again after expecting something or someone other than a relationship with Jesus to bring us freedom."

Read the full devotion from Julie Ogg on our Daily Worship blog.

April 30 | Luke 15:11-24 DAILY READINGLuke 15:11-24REFLECTIONThe Riches a Loving Family Providesby Julie OggThe Parable of the Prodigal Son is familiar to many of us. It’s so familiar we may have lost sight of the amazing freedom offered by Jesus in this parable. It’s important to remember that the question that prompte...