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Free community meal at Unitarian Universalist Church today

Posted at 9:41 am March 29, 2013
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

The Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church has a free community meal this evening, a press release said.

It’s the Stone Soup Ministry meal, and it’s held the last Friday of every month in the Social Hall of the Unitarian Universalist Church. Food for the free monthly meal is provided by the ORUUC congregation with financial help from Oak Ridge community members. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Churches, Community, Faith, Top Stories Tagged With: community meal, Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church, ORUUC, Stone Soup Fable, Stone Soup Ministry

Central Baptist has Easter egg hunt on March 23

Posted at 2:04 pm March 12, 2013
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

The Central Baptist Church in Oak Ridge will have an Easter egg hunt on Saturday, March 23.

It starts at 1:30 p.m. at Central Baptist Church at 103 Providence Road, and it’s for children up to 12 years old.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Churches, Community, Faith, Top Stories Tagged With: Central Baptist Church, Easter egg hunt

Gospel concert in Oliver Springs helps infant with serious health problems

Posted at 11:48 am March 2, 2013
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

Ava Rose Brown

Ava Rose Brown

A concert in Oliver Springs tonight will help a family with an infant with serious health problems.

The gospel benefit concert for Ava Rose Brown is scheduled from 6-9 p.m. today at Beech Park Baptist Church on East Tri County Boulevard in Oliver Springs.

It will help Ava Rose’s parents, Tiffany and Eddie Brown, purchase a van and remodel their home, concert organizer and family friend Kevin Craft said. He said Eddie and Tiffany Brown, who also have two other children, are now living with a relative in Oak Ridge, and their home is partially remodeled.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Churches, Community, Faith, Health, Music, Top Stories Tagged With: Ava Rose Brown, Beech Park Baptist Church, benefit concert, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, Eddie Brown, gospel concert, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, RSV, Tiffany Brown

Unitarian Universalists buy land near Federal Building for new church

Posted at 5:59 pm February 27, 2013
By John Huotari 2 Comments

Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church Site

Members of the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church have purchased this 4.6-acre site in front of the Joe L. Evins Federal Building on Oak Ridge Turnpike. (Photo courtesy of Jake B. Morrill)

The members of a heavily used church on busy Oak Ridge Turnpike have found a new home, part of a neighborhood exodus to make way for a new Kroger Marketplace shopping center in the heart of the city.

Members of the Oak Unitarian Universalist Church had agreed in September to sell their current building and 3.6 acres at Oak Ridge Turnpike and Robertsville Road in a deal arranged by commercial developers Blanchard and Calhoun Commercial.

On Wednesday, roughly five months later, congregation members announced they had purchased a 4.6-acre parcel at Oak Ridge Turnpike and Laboratory Road, in front of the Joe L. Evins Federal Building.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, Churches, Community, Faith, Oak Ridge, Top Stories Tagged With: Joe L. Evins Federal Building, Kroger Marketplace, Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Chuch, Robertsville Road, shopping center, Unitarian Universalists

Rummage sale at Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church this weekend

Posted at 10:30 am February 15, 2013
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The Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church has a rummage sale Friday and Saturday.

It will include easy-to-browse tables of items set up in the Social Hall and classrooms, yard and garden items displayed on the patio, and live and silent auctions and the Step Above Boutique, a press release said.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Churches, Community, Top Stories Tagged With: Betsy Bauer, Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church, rummage sale, Step Above Boutique

Bullying prevention seminar: Creating a safe environment

Posted at 2:04 pm January 31, 2013
By Kay Brookshire Leave a Comment

Join in the discussion of how you can help create a safe environment for youth at a bullying prevention seminar on Thursday, Feb. 7, at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.

“Creating a Safe Environment” is the theme of the seminar focused on the impact and prevention of bullying. The community is invited to participate.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Churches, Community, Nonprofits, Top Stories Tagged With: Ande Bradford-Baker, Anderson County deputy sheriff, bullying, bullying prevention, Creating a Safe Environment, Oak Ridge Boys and Girls Club, Scott Lucas, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

Women’s Interfaith Dialogue discusses discriminatory and prejudicial thinking Monday

Posted at 8:43 pm January 30, 2013
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The Women’s Interfaith Dialogue of Oak Ridge will discuss “Discriminatory and Prejudicial Thinking” during a Monday meeting at Grace Covenant Church.

The presenter will be Michele DeRieux. DeRieux has almost 15 years as a certified trainer for the National Coalition Building Institute, an international organization for mediating conflict and celebrating diversity, a press release said.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Churches, Community, Faith, Top Stories Tagged With: Discriminatory and Prejudicial Thinking, Grace Covenant Church, Michele DeRieux, WID, Women's Interfaith Dialogue of Oak Ridge

Free community meal at Grace Covenant, homeless invited

Posted at 9:08 pm January 22, 2013
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

As part of an effort to count homeless individuals and families for the Jan. 24 “Point In Time Count,” or PITC, a free community meal at Grace Covenant Church at 5 p.m. Thursday is open to community members who are homeless, a press release said.

The dinner is being organized by Trinity Outreach Center of Hope, or TORCH, a new nonprofit working to support the most economically challenged in our area and leading the Jan. 24 homeless count in Anderson County.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Churches, Community, Nonprofits, Top Stories Tagged With: Anderson County, Grace Covenant Church, homeless, PITC, Point-in-Time Count, TORCH, Trinity Outreach Center of Hope, Zabrina Minor

Free community meal at Unitarian Universalist Church on Friday

Posted at 10:02 am January 21, 2013
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

The Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church has a free community meal on Friday, and nurses from the Free Medical Clinic of Oak Ridge have volunteered to give flu shots to those in need, a press release said.

Free coats and blankets will also be available on a first-come, first-serve basis due to a limited supply.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Churches, Community, Faith, Top Stories Tagged With: community meal, flu shots, Free Medical Clinic, Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church, ORUUC, Stone Soup Fable, Stone Soup Ministry

Unitarian Universalists consider new site in east Oak Ridge

Posted at 10:39 am January 7, 2013
By John Huotari 8 Comments

Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church Site

Members of the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church voted 131-2 to try to buy this 4.6-acre site in front of the Joe L. Evins Federal Building for a new church. (Photo courtesy of Jake B. Morrill)

They’ve agreed to sell their current church to make way for a new shopping center, and on Sunday, members of the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church voted overwhelmingly to try to move to the east end of town.

The congregation voted 131-2 to buy a 4.6-acre site in front of the Joe L. Evins Federal Building, home of the U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge Office. The plot is beside Summit Medical on Laboratory Road.

But they haven’t closed on the deal yet, the church’s minister, Rev. Jake B. Morrill, said Monday morning. In a press release Monday afternoon, members of the Church’s Relocation Steering Committee said the due diligence process is not complete, and a closing date hasn’t been set.

Assuming the deal is completed, the next step would be to design a building. The church said it is working with an architect “to begin a congregation-wide process to design a new church using a sustainable, green design for the new facility and preservation of as much of the existing park-like setting of the parcel as possible.”

Church members expect to be in their new home by Thanksgiving 2014.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, Churches, Faith, Oak Ridge, Top Stories Tagged With: Jake B. Morrill, Joe L. Evins Federal Building, Kroger Marketplace, Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church, shopping center, U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge Office

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