New class this fall at Casas Adobes Congregational UCC
Mondays, Sept. 10th through Oct. 1st from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.

Keep your mind healthy and active. New research shows that several factors are responsible for better cognitive performance in the aging process, including decision-making, reasoning and problem-solving skills. You will learn how to maintain and improve these functions, and how to focus attention, enhance your memory, and get more enjoyment out of life’s experiences. 

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Live jazz every Thursday
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. 
$5 donation

Sacred Grounds Jazz Coffeehouse is located in the auditorium of Scottsdale Congregational UCC
4425 N. Granite Reef Road, Scottsdale AZ 85251

"Thanks so much to everyone who pitched in and helped clean up the damage caused by our recent microburst!”

Church Jottings are compiled by Holly Herman from your church newsletters - be sure to add Holly and Wende to your mailing list! Email longer articles to Wende or submit this online form.

Church Jottings are compiled by Holly Herman from your church newsletters - be sure to add Holly and Wende to your mailing list! Email longer articles to Wende or submit this online form.

Church Jottings are compiled by Holly Herman from your church newsletters - be sure to add Holly and Wende to your mailing list! Email longer articles to Wende or submit this online form.

Grant application, first stewardship season, and founding partners list.

The Sedona Academy of Chamber Singers, choir-in-residence at The Church of the Red Rocks and the only semi-professional choir in Northern Arizona, will share a choral concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, August 19th, at The Church of the Red Rocks, 54 Bowstring Drive, Sedona.

Admission is free.

The concert, entitled From the Heart, will feature choral settings featuring basic human emotions:  joy, sadness, anger, fear, and love.

Church Jottings are compiled by Holly Herman from your church newsletters - be sure to add Holly to your mailing list! Email articles to Wende or submit this online form.

United Church of Santa Fe's Rev. Talitha Arnold has been asked to be a regular panelist on KSFR’s “Santa Fe Forum,” airing Mondays (6:30–7:00 pm) on 101.1 FM. To quote KSFR, the Forum is “where prominent locals discuss important issues of the day in a hard-hitting but civilized manner.”

On June 10, we observed Pride Sunday here at SCUCC: We celebrated our heritage as a UCC Open & Affirming congregation of nearly two decades, as well as our return to the Phoenix Pride festival this year, and our intention to significantly update our ONA statement in honor of its 20th birthday in October.

As Taos United Community Church prepares for our new fiscal year, we want to thank every one of you who contributed this year, with your time, with your talents, and with your money.  Taos UCC exists because of the people who’ve come together to birth and build this new faith community.

Today we are writing to ask you to take another step in your journey with Taos UCC.

On June 10th, Scottsdale Congregational UCC served a sumptuous meatloaf dinner to around 40 people at Rebel & Divine. There were visitors from Phoenix Gaymers, who helped with the program, and from Insight, who provided free HIV testing for the youth. We had seven people from SCUCC come to help serve

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The Evans Bell Conversion is making available a program of spoken word and music entitled “Meditations Traveling Towards the Setting Sun.” This performance, about 45 minutes in length, is set around a journey that was taken during the last Lenten season. This trip through South East Asia inspired this collection of work that is an attempt to intertwine the ancient rhythms of eastern religions with our own continuing exploration of spirituality in the cosmically focused 21st century.

at First Church UCC Phoenix