Events
🌿 Special Events for Easter Week
Join us as we journey through this sacred and meaningful week together:
🍞 Meal in the Upper Room
📅 Monday, March 30
🕕 6 PM
📍 Starting in the Café
✝️ Maundy Thursday Service
📅 Thursday, April 2
🕖 7 PM
📍 Sanctuary
🙏 Includes Holy Communion
🕯️ Good Friday Tenebrae Service
📅 Friday, April 3
🕖 7 PM
📍 Sanctuary
🌅 Sunrise Service
📅 Sunday, April 5
🕕 6 AM
📍 Sonrise Garden
☕ Coffee & Donuts to follow in the Reception Hall
💛 Grief and Hope
You are warmly invited to a bereavement support group, a caring space for sharing, healing, and finding hope together. Come as you are; you are welcome anytime, even if you cannot attend every session.
📅 Mondays for 8 weeks
🗓️ Beginning April 13
🕜 1:30 – 3:00 PM
Together, we will gently explore:
• Grieving and loss
• Finding hope
• Healing and restoration
• Rebuilding and remembering
Please let us know if you plan to attend so we can prepare enough materials for everyone. Contact Carolyn Gray, Lin Daniels or Bill McGugan to join or to get more information.
🌟 Trash & Treasure Tag Sale
🗓 When: Saturday, April 18 🕘 9 AM – 2 PM
📍 Location: Cooper Hall
Our popular Trash & Treasures Tag Sale is back! Come explore a wide variety of great finds, including:
✨ Antikews, Used Jewelry, Novels (only), Puzzles, Plants, Household & decorative treasures ✨
🥪 Lunch will be available for purchase from 11 AM – 1 PM
Donations Accepted: [March 16 – April 12]
Donations may be left on the stage in Cooper Hall while the church is open (office hours - M, T, Th 9am-1pm & Fri 9am-12pm)
We are accepting:
• Clean household & decorative items
• Novels only (no other books this year)
• Puzzles, Small electrical appliances
• Paper bags with handles
• Used Jewelry may be placed anytime in the donation box located in Reception Hall
Please do not donate:
• TVs, computers, stereo systems, records
• Clothing
• Large exercise equipment
We need many volunteers to help make this event successful! If you are available even for an hour or two, please consider helping!
Contact Kathy Thornton tkathy58@gmail.com or church office for any questions
🏡 Rebuilding Together Manchester
🗓 When: Saturday, April 25 🕣 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM+
❓Why: Our Manchester neighbors need help with home maintenance
👥 Who/What: SUMC volunteers are needed for yardwork, painting, and other small home projects around a neighbor’s home
✍️ Sign up in the Reception Hall or the Café between February 15 and March
Spring will be here before you know it!
SUMC is gathering volunteers for the annual Rebuilding Together Manchester (RTM) event.
RTM supports Manchester residents by helping with minor home maintenance tasks that homeowners may be unable to complete on their own.Contact: Jeff Kieft (gjkieft@yahoo.com)
