Pastoral Letter Addressing the Unjust Rise of Anti-LGBTQIA Legislation in the United States

On May 8, General Minister and President Rev. Terri Hord Owens with Rev. LaMarco Cable, President of Global Ministries (Disciples of Christ and United Church of Christ), and Rev. Chis Dorsey, President of Disciples Home Missions, joined their voices with other leaders across the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) to denounce the rising violence against LGBTQIA persons in a Pastoral Letter Addressing the Unjust Rise of Anti-LGBTQIA Legislation in the United States.

Read the full statement HERE.

For resources, solidarity, and action, see this page from the Disciples LGBTQ+ Alliance.

Wende GonzalesMay 13, 2023

Thursdays In Black

This Mothers Day, many will celebrate the women in their lives with flowers and kind words. Let us also consider the mothers, grandmothers, aunts, siblings, and daughters across the world facing rape and other gender-based violence daily. We know young ones are also subject to such harm and tribulation.

Join Disciples and the World Council of Churches for Thursdays in Black to build awareness and resistance to permissive attitudes toward rape and violence.

Wear black on Thursdays, take a selfie, and tag it with #ccdocThursdaysinBlack

Wende GonzalesMay 13, 2023

Widows / Widowers Support Group

begins Thursday, June 1, 6 to 7:30 pm
Saguaro library

Preston Young will help to facilitate this new weekly support group.

Widows/Widowers is a nonprofit all-volunteer group of widowed individuals supporting each other in all stages of bereavement.

"We listen to what hurts as well as what works...This is an effective way to process grief, move forward, and heal."

Wende GonzalesMay 13, 2023Saguaro Christian Church

Another Sol Food Cooking Session!

Save the date for the next Sol Food cooking session on May 21

Many thanks to everyone who helped to prep meals in April for our Wednesday evening meal program. We fixed 80 meals in 45 minutes!!

We've planned another prep day for May 21 after worship. Please join us if you can. It's fun and no experience is necessary!

Wende GonzalesMay 6, 2023Saguaro Christian Church

We are a Movement for Wholeness in a Fragmented World

Your gifts to the 2023 Pentecost Offering, received this year on Sundays, May 21 and 28, help ensure our movement continues to embody the Disciples of Christ vision: to be and to share the Good News, witnessing, loving and serving from our doorsteps to the ends of the earth.

Half of your gift supports the local new church movement through your region’s ministry. The other half supports New Church Ministry efforts across the United States and Canada to equip, train, and empower new leaders.

So, thank you. For participating in the new thing God is still doing — just as in the beginning.

Please give generously to the Pentecost Offering.

Wende GonzalesMay 5, 2023

Hearty Soup!

Hearty Soup!! Hearty Soup!!

Help us restock the Community Food Bank by bringing cans of hearty soup! All through April- help us collect cans of hearty soup! There is a bin outside the sanctuary to collect them.

Questions? Contact Heidi Sims

Wende GonzalesApril 17, 2023

All Church Beginnings Retreat

11:30 on Sunday, April 30

Meet your leadership team in the Saguaro Center. All y'all are invited! Whether you've been attending for "a hundred years" or have been visiting for months or just dropped in last Sunday, please plan to join us.

Questions? Let Kelley know.

Wende GonzalesApril 17, 2023Saguaro Christian Church

Holy Week and Easter schedule

Get these events onto your calendar - don’t miss out!

Wende GonzalesMarch 25, 2023Saguaro Christian ChurchHoly Week, Easter, Easter egg hunt, Tucson

Palm Sunday celebration with Revs. Kate and Bruce Epperly!

Saguaro Christian Church is “where it all began” for both Rev. Kate Epperly D. Min. and Rev. Bruce Epperly, Ph.D. who are this year celebrating 43 years joined in ministry and marriage! Kate was ordained at Saguaro Christian Church in 1979 and Bruce, in 1980. So too, their son, Matthew was born in Tucson and dedicated at Saguaro Christian in 1980! They and their extended family are traveling from Washington, D.C. with great thanksgiving and joy to join us in worship on Palm Sunday and celebrate afterwards during coffee hour.

Kate and Bruce will talk about their journey together as “mystics in action.” Kate and Bruce penned together an award winning book on this topic entitled: "Tending to the Holy: The Practice of the Presence of God in Ministry" (2009). Their mysticism is grounded in their ongoing practice and teaching of reiki healing touch. (see: The Energy of Love: Reiki and Christianity)

Bruce and Kate’s ministerial careers represent a commitment to the challenges and joys of bi-vocational team ministry and a commitment to holistic spirituality and health within the setting of congregational ministry and service