This Sunday is Homecoming Sunday. Our Jazz Sunday will welcome Katherine and Kompanie, the jazz trio of Katherine Hedlund at the Bosendorfer piano, Nick Trautman on bass, and Willie Bruno on drums. A picnic will then spread out upon our lawn with fried chicken and macaroni and cheese. We hope you plan to be with […]
YES, HON, YOU COULD GROW UP TO BE A…
Of course, we utter words like above to our children about becoming a professor, a doctor, or a pilot. Why do we never say it about becoming a pastor? I wonder. This matters more than we think. With two other pastors, I am helping a 2,400-member Florida UCC church seeking a new senior pastor. Even […]
Dancing for Puerto Rico Recovery
By Gary Holmes (member Board of Outreach) On behalf of the Board of Outreach I am inviting you to attend our second Latin Dance Party on September 27 at 7:00 p.m. to raise funds for Puerto Rico, which is still reeling from the consequences of Hurricane Maria. Those of you who were there for our […]
CLINGING TO THE ROCK OF OUR SALVATION
We’ve traveled many and various directions this summer seeking the rest, renewal and repose of vacation. Has anyone recently visited New Mexico? It is one of my favorite states, especially northern New Mexico where my seminary classmate, the Rev. Talitha Arnold, is at the United Church of Santa Fe. Her words made an impression on […]
Early 1800s: Troubled Waters
“Early 1800s: Troubled Waters” By Joe Pankowski, Church Historian (This is the eighth of twelve notes which will run on the first Sunday of each month in honor of the 275th anniversary of the ordination of our first settled pastor, Moses Mather, in 1744) Last month, our story left off with the burial of […]
WHITE SUPREMACY AND MASS KILLINGS
Our nation is in crisis. In the first 219 days of this year, we’ve had 255 mass killings. In the wake of the 9/11 international terrorism crisis, we didn’t say, “Hey, there’s nothing we can do about this. We must resign ourselves to accept getting bombed.” No, we launched new preparedness. And as a result […]