We’re excited to announce the launch of Willow Street UCC’s new Day Program: a monthly community gathering designed especially for seniors, but open toanyone who would like to attend!

This new initiative will begin this fall and is designed to provide a welcoming, uplifting space for fellowship, encouragement, and enrichment. Attendees can look forward to:

• Light lunch provided

• Games and group activities

• Special guest speakers or presentations

• A time to connect and build relationships in a warm, supportive environment

Fall 2025 Dates (All Thursdays, 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM):

• October 30

• November 20

• December 18

We hope this will become a beloved monthly tradition in our community as we continue to care for and connect with one another!

We’re excited to announce the launch of Willow Street UCC’s new Day Program: a monthly community gathering designed especially for seniors, but open toanyone who would like to attend!

This new initiative will begin this fall and is designed to provide a welcoming, uplifting space for fellowship, encouragement, and enrichment. Attendees can look forward to:

• Light lunch provided

• Games and group activities

• Special guest speakers or presentations

• A time to connect and build relationships in a warm, supportive environment

Fall 2025 Dates (All Thursdays, 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM):

• October 30

• November 20

• December 18

We hope this will become a beloved monthly tradition in our community as we continue to care for and connect with one another!

If you’d like to join the choir, please contact our office! We rehearse on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. and sing a choral anthem on Sundays September-May at 9:30 a.m.

Call our Church office to make an appointment! If you’d like to meet with Pastor Zach, but you’re unavailable during this timeframe, give us a call, and well find another time to connect.

If you’d like to join the choir, please contact our office! We rehearse on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. and sing a choral anthem on Sundays September-May at 9:30 a.m.

Call our Church office to make an appointment! If you’d like to meet with Pastor Zach, but you’re unavailable during this timeframe, give us a call, and well find another time to connect.

If you’d like to join the choir, please contact our office! We rehearse on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. and sing a choral anthem on Sundays September-May at 9:30 a.m.

Call our Church office to make an appointment! If you’d like to meet with Pastor Zach, but you’re unavailable during this timeframe, give us a call, and well find another time to connect.

If you’d like to join the choir, please contact our office! We rehearse on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. and sing a choral anthem on Sundays September-May at 9:30 a.m.

Call our Church office to make an appointment! If you’d like to meet with Pastor Zach, but you’re unavailable during this timeframe, give us a call, and well find another time to connect.

If you’d like to join the choir, please contact our office! We rehearse on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. and sing a choral anthem on Sundays September-May at 9:30 a.m.

Call our Church office to make an appointment! If you’d like to meet with Pastor Zach, but you’re unavailable during this timeframe, give us a call, and well find another time to connect.

If you’d like to join the choir, please contact our office! We rehearse on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. and sing a choral anthem on Sundays September-May at 9:30 a.m.

Call our Church office to make an appointment! If you’d like to meet with Pastor Zach, but you’re unavailable during this timeframe, give us a call, and well find another time to connect.

If you’d like to join the choir, please contact our office! We rehearse on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. and sing a choral anthem on Sundays September-May at 9:30 a.m.

Call our Church office to make an appointment! If you’d like to meet with Pastor Zach, but you’re unavailable during this timeframe, give us a call, and well find another time to connect.

If you’d like to join the choir, please contact our office! We rehearse on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. and sing a choral anthem on Sundays September-May at 9:30 a.m.

Call our Church office to make an appointment! If you’d like to meet with Pastor Zach, but you’re unavailable during this timeframe, give us a call, and well find another time to connect.

If you’d like to join the choir, please contact our office! We rehearse on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. and sing a choral anthem on Sundays September-May at 9:30 a.m.

If you’d like to join the choir, please contact our office! We rehearse on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. and sing a choral anthem on Sundays September-May at 9:30 a.m.

Call our Church office to make an appointment! If you’d like to meet with Pastor Zach, but you’re unavailable during this timeframe, give us a call, and well find another time to connect.

Our congregation is led by the Consistory, our lay leadership team. They most often meet every fourth Monday to prayerfully navigate congregational decision-making, administrative tasks, and other church needs. Reach out to President Dick Peipher with any questions or concerns: office@wsucc.com.

Call our Church office to make an appointment! If you’d like to meet with Pastor Zach, but you’re unavailable during this timeframe, give us a call, and well find another time to connect.

Join us for an evening with author, Jeff Chu, as he discusses his book: “Good Soil.”

RSVP via phone or email: office@wsucc.com | (717) 464-3462.

In his late thirties, Jeff Chu left his job as a magazine writer and found himself at Princeton Theological Seminary’s “Farminary”—a twenty-one-acre working farm where students learn to cultivate the earth while examining life’s biggest questions. Now, he unpacks what he learned about creating “good soil,” both literally and figuratively, drawing lessons from the rhythms of growth, decay, and regeneration that define life on the land.

In gorgeous, transporting reflections, Chu introduces us to the cast of characters, human and not, who became his teachers. While observing the egrets that visit the pond, the worms that turn waste into fertile soil, and the Chinese long beans that get passed over in the farm’s CSA, Chu considers our desire to belong, the story behind the food on our plate, and the significance of his own roots. What is the earth trying to tell us, if we’ll only stop and listen?

Good Soil helps readers connect to the land and to one another at a time when we seem drawn most to the phones in our hands. For nature lovers, foodies, and anyone who has daydreamed about a more fulfilling life, this book is a tribute to friendship, to the sacredness of our bond with the natural world, and to how love can grow from the most unlikely of places.

Jeff Chu is an award-winning journalist and editor-at-large at Travel+Leisure. He is the author of Does Jesus Really Love Me? and the co-author, with the late Rachel Held Evans, of the New York Times bestseller Wholehearted Faith. Chu is a former Time staff writer and Fast Company editor whose work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Modern Farmer. In his weekly newsletter, “Notes of a Make-Believe Farmer,” Chu writes about spirituality, gardening, food, travel, and culture. He lives with his husband, Tristan, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.