LENT Our theme is Holy Vessels: A Lenten Season of Recovery. The premise is that we are holy vessels created to embody love. But we have been broken (especially this past year) — in body, mind, and spirit — like a bottle fractured into pieces, but pieces that time and the ocean somehow make beautiful. […]
Newsletters
DECEMBER 2020
Advent Begins Sunday, November 29 Winds of Change Are you ready? Soon we begin the liturgical season of Advent. Though we are not gathering in person to worship, recorded online services will continue weekly, plus we will post an extra service on Christmas Eve. The theme this year is Winds of Change. It […]
BELL TOWER September 2020
MINISTERIAL MUSINGS I’ve often thought that humor is a very Godly thing. After all, it’s said humans are the only animals who laugh, and we’re made in God’s image! Yes, there is humor that’s cruel and blatantly un-Godly (ridicule, racist slurs, jokes that serve bigotry or pride). But often, someone who’s made to look a […]
AUGUST 2020 NEWSLETTER
Ministerial Musings There was no Music, Arts, & Drama (MAD) camp AT camp this summer. But we did have a virtual “Camp Quarantine” on Zoom last week. I was skeptical, but it turned out to be both fun and moving — proof (if any was needed) that I don’t know nearly as much as […]
June Newsletter
FCC Set to Open on June 14 Our elders and council leaders have prayerfully established procedures — using CDC recommended guidelines — for opening the church to worship on Sunday, June 14 (UNLESS there is a big spike in CoviD-19 cases or a related health concern). It will be different, but we hope to come […]