Summer feeding program to resume next month
The Summer Feeding program has resumed. The Church of Peace serves more than 2,000 meals a day!!
Search Committee Update – May
Greetings from the Search Committee
Candidates
April was a busy month for the search committee. At the end of March, our job announcement was posted to the UCC website. Since then we have had 20 candidates apply for the position. We have had people apply from all corners of the country, all ages, genders and a wide [...]
Holy Land Presentation
On Sunday April 15 at 9:00 am in the Lounge, Karen and Darryl Anderson will present a program on their recent trip to the Holy Land. This promises to be a very interesting and informative spiritual journey, especially at this time of year. Please plan on joining us; and as always, invite a friend!
Intersession Meals Program Wrap-Up
Thanks to our volunteers for so generously donating their time to the Intersession Meals Program held March 12-23. We served approximately 2,800 meals to children and 370 meals to adults in the Family Literacy Program during the 10-day break from school. This number includes not only Church of Peace but also the King Center.
Those [...]
Church of Peace hosts media event for Health Initiative
Explaining the need for mammograms and pap smears to immigrant women—who don’t speak English—is a challenge for health care workers and those trying to help the immigrants assimilate into a new country. Thanks to a “Susan G. Komen Quad Cities” grant, there is a new picture book designed to educate the women about the procedures.
A [...]
Search Committee Update March 21
Church Profile and Focus Groups
The search committee has made great progress since we started our weekly meetings. In March, we wrapped up the local profile. This profile is roughly 25 pages and holds a great deal of information about our church and our missions. The search committee put a lot of time into it to [...]
Rock Island Superintendent Visits Church of Peace
Mike Oberhaus superintendent for Rock Island School District, will be at the Church of Peace 2:30 on Tuesday, Feb. 21, in the lounge to talk with our people about the schools. It is really a testiment to the leadership of the Church in the community that h is coming here. Anyone who can participate will [...]
Search Committee Update
The search committee got off to a great start on January 8. The members include: Donna Boyle, Alex Fischer-Oelschlaeger, Rhys Fullerlove, Ed Johnson, Diane McCarthy, George Oelschlaeger, Nancy Olson, Gail Sederquist and Sue Spurgetis.
The committee met with conference minister Rev. Kathy Lawes who explained the search process. During the next six months, the committee will [...]
Timpani is New to Worship
Two recent additions to the Church of Peace worship services are a pair of timpani, also called kettledrums. They were purchased with funds given in Corinne Colclasure’s memory. Kettledrums originated in Asia as part of the military. Germany had become a center of playing timpani as early as 1384. A foot pedal device is used [...]
Christmas Eve Services
Celebrate Jesus! Christmas Eve Services
Saturday, December 24th
4:30 pm • 10:30 pm