Announcements Events Serve Give Music of the Season For me, the Advent Christmas season has always been filled with stirring music.  As an adult, I look forward to taking out and playing my beloved Christmas CDs.  I wait all year for that moment.  As a teenager, I sang a verse of “We, Three Kings of Orient Are” while marching down the long aisle in our annual … [Read more...]

Announcements Events Serve Give What is it about the Advent Season that tugs at our heart? I know that most of the world calls this time of year “the Christmas Season,” yet we Christians know better. We know that on the first Sunday in Advent, (November 27th this year) the church calendar flips, and we begin a “New Year.” We are just so out of step with the commercialized, … [Read more...]

Announcements Events Serve Give A Meditation One of my favorite spiritual writings is a meditation from Brother Roger who was the founder of the Protestant Monastery of Taize in Taize, France. Here is what he wrote in 1972 as part of his annual letter (I urge you to read it slowly, over the course of several days in order to allow his wisdom to sink into you. Maybe even … [Read more...]

Announcements Events Serve Give The process in calling a New Pastor... Take 2. This past Tuesday, the PCUSA pastors gathered here at FPC for our monthly noon lunch together. It is a great time of connection. Pastor Susan came. Pastor Ben stopped and stayed. Ezra and Christa stopped by and got introduced. As an extra bonus, Reverend Stacy Cavanaugh, our … [Read more...]

Announcements Events Serve Give All Saints “From Earth’s wide bounds, from ocean’s farthest coast, through gates of pearl streams in the countless host” is a lush image from the hymn “For All the Saints”.  It describes the welcome all receive when we enter into the Church triumphant.  We sing this hymn on All Saint’s Day as we remember those who have died this … [Read more...]