Newsletters
Weekly bulletins, monthly newsletters, and a message from the pastor.
Worship at Unity Christian Church in Radford is this Sunday at 11:00 AM.
Pastor Ben will share “A Table Prepared” from Matthew 22:1–14 and Psalm 23. This week’s worship also includes Luke 14:15–24 and focuses on God’s invitation, goodness, and the table Christ prepares for us.
Community Table will be held Saturday, October 3, from 4:00–4:30 PM, served by the Moore Team.
Brown Bag Bible Study meets Monday, October 5, from 12:00–1:00 PM at Unity Christian Church. This week’s study will include Matthew 21:33–46 and Exodus 20:1–4, 7–9.
Upcoming Community Table Teams
October 3: Moore Team
October 10: Grove Team
Oasis Circle, M&M’s Circle, and CWF
Oasis Circle meets Tuesday, October 6, at 10:30 AM.
M&M’s Circle meets Tuesday, October 6, at 6:00 PM.
CWF meets Tuesday, October 6, at 7:00 PM.
Sock-It-To-Me Sundays
CWF will be collecting socks for all ages, including children, women, and men, to donate to the clothing bank. Donations may be brought on October 18 and October 25.
Looking Ahead
Worship will be held Sunday, October 11, at 11:00 AM.
Brown Bag Bible Study meets Monday, October 12, from 12:00–1:00 PM at Unity Christian Church.
God and My Girlfriends meets Monday, October 12, from 6:30–8:00 PM.
Bible Readings This Week
Our daily Bible readings continue through the prophets, covering Micah 5–7, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, and Zechariah 1–10 from October 5–11.
Serving in Worship This Sunday
Rev. Ben Moore, Susan Barton, Nicole Altizer, Kelly Evans, Gary Davis, Wendy Clark, Anna Goodall, Katie Lemmon, the UCC Choir, the Praise Team, and Gina Rhea.
Worship at Unity Christian Church in Radford is held Sundays at 11:00 AM.
This month’s October worship series includes messages from Matthew, Psalm 23, Exodus, 1 Thessalonians, and Psalm 1, with themes of invitation, faithfulness, authenticity, and love.
October Worship
October 4: “A Table Prepared” from Matthew 22:1–14 and Psalm 23
October 11: “Not Our Own” from Matthew 21:33–46 and Exodus 20:1–4, 7–9
October 18: “Nothing But The Real Thing” from Matthew 22:15–22 and 1 Thessalonians 1:1–10
October 25: “Number 1” from Matthew 22:34–46 and Psalm 1
Community Table
Community Table continues Saturdays from 4:00–4:30 PM at Unity Christian Church.
October 3: Community Table
October 10: Grove Team
October 17: VaTech Team
October 24: FCC Pulaski Team
October 31: Kiwanis Team
Brown Bag Bible Study
Brown Bag Bible Study meets Mondays from 12:00–1:00 PM at Unity Christian Church on October 5, 12, 19, and 26.
God and My Girlfriends
God and My Girlfriends meets Monday evenings from 6:30–8:00 PM, except the first week of each month due to Circle meetings.
This small group of women gathers to grow in faith, encourage one another, pray together, share life, and build friendships centered on Christ.
Christian Women’s Fellowship
Christian Women’s Fellowship is open to all women. CWF meets the first Tuesday of the month at Unity Christian Church, with Oasis at 10:30 AM and M&M’s at 6:00 PM.
The next Circle and CWF meetings will be Tuesday, October 6.
Sock It To Me Sundays
CWF will be collecting socks for all ages, including children, women, and men, to donate to The Clothing Bank.
Socks may be dropped off at Unity Christian Church on October 18 and October 25.
Hollyberry Fair
The Hollyberry Fair will be held Saturday, December 5, from 9:00 AM–1:00 PM.
Donations are needed, including baskets, items for men and women, gently used or new household and gift items, handmade items, jewelry, and Christmas holiday items. Please do not donate clothing.
The deadline to bring in items is Sunday, October 25.
Lunch Bunch
Lunch Bunch will meet Wednesday, October 28, at 12 noon at Sal’s JR.
Bible Readings This Month
October Bible readings continue through Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
Serving in October
Elders serving in October are Janice Cheverton and Jackie Lemmon.
Deacons serving throughout the month include Dwayne Dickerson, Jesse Shepherd, Maria Shepherd, Treena Stike, Gary Davis, Cody Evans, Anna Goodall, and Katie Lemmon.
A Message From Rev. Ben Moore
God is at work right here and right now. Sometimes we can get lost in the bigness of what God is doing, that God is at work everywhere and at all times, and forget that there are specifics to how and what God is doing wherever and whenever right here and right now happen to be. But God is at work right here and right now, wherever and whenever that is for you.
That same bigness of God can overwhelm us when we try to imagine what God is up to, imagine what God’s love is like, imagine what heaven is like, imagine what the kingdom of God is. But what would it look like to imagine what God could do right here in our lives, how God could and wants to change the way things are so that they become the way things should be.
As we are in this transitional space it is a great time to remember that God is seeking transition in the work that God is doing in the world. God does not want to leave us, or our world, in the state we and it are in.
Instead God is working to bring about change, to mold God’s creation into something more.
Right now, we are in the middle of a sermon series asking us to imagine the world that God is making, and what that more would look like, not in an abstract big picture way, but in its change for our lives, for our church, and for our community. Scripture, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus himself are constantly pointing us to what it is that God is up to in our lives, in our cities and towns, in our church. Then we are asked how we can join in with that work, to take that imagining and put it into practice as co-creators with God.
God is able to do, as the writer of Ephesians tells us, extraordinarily more than we can think or imagine. But God starts by doing something that could also be beyond our thinking and imagining, inviting us to be a part of that work, helping us to imagine a world that is so much more than we know, and then making that world a reality.
Thankful that I get to do this work alongside you!
Pastor Ben