Today, we continue on our Journey as we explore "Life Outside the Church" - Not that we are leaving the church, but that we are taking the church outside these walls and pairing our faith with our act...  Read More

Today, we continue on our Journey as we explore "Life Outside the Church" - Not that we are leaving the church, but that we are taking the church outside these walls and pairing our faith with our act...  Read More

Today, we embark on a new Journey as we will begin to explore "Life Outside the Church" - Not that we are leaving the church, but that we are taking the church outside these walls and pairing our fait...  Read More

So this summer, we are getting OUTSIDE the church for a sermon series I am titling “Life Outside the Church”. In this series, we will engage with actionable things we can do each day, we will learn t...  Read More

Today we celebrate our youth and the Graduates of the church....  Read More

1 Corinthians 2:1-5 When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the testimony of God to you with superior speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jes...  Read More

Our final service of this series offers the vision of the New Creation — a world where we are no longer strangers or aliens because of our differences. It doesn’t matter whether you’ve been a Christia...  Read More

As disciples of Jesus, we are called to believe that living a new way is possible, and also to share that good news with others. Not all of us are called or equipped to preach, heal, or cast out demon...  Read More

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When we tend to our relationship with God, we connect with the power of new life and healing. Sometimes there are wounds that have remained with us over the years and we continue to “bleed” even thoug...  Read More

The poet Mary Oliver asks in one of her works, “what are you going to do with your one wild, precious life?” The Apostle Paul is trying to spread the Gospel news of new life in Christ but new Christia...  Read More

Every little thing we do with compassion is a small seed that can sprout into good things beyond our imagining. Like “paying it forward” or “random acts of kindness,” we can tend a new creation with a...  Read More

Tending a new creation may involve the creation or expansion of our concepts of “family.” In the scripture Jesus confirms that kinship in God’s Realm can go beyond bloodlines. We can re-create family ...  Read More

As we begin the series, we will look to what Jesus taught about keeping the Sabbath. In order to tend a new creation within us, we focus less on rules, and more about what gives us life and light as a...  Read More

“Want to be friends?” I often marvel at my children’s natural ability to make friends effortlessly at the park. They’d simply ask, “Want to be friends?” and, just like that, a new connection was form...  Read More

Easter is tricky when it comes to faith. We come for the happy ending–the “and then they lived happily ever after.” The resurrection story proclaims hope over despair and life over death, yet we know ...  Read More

Some days are just lousy and that doesn’t even begin to cover it. The first recorded use of "guode friday” was in the South English Legendary, a text from 1290. Calling a day “good” was a way to denot...  Read More

In this Week's Bulletin:AnnouncementsScheduleMonthly EventsMonthly MissionPastor's DiscretionaryLiturgyGatheringMessageOfferingClosing The United Methodist Committee on Relief is one of the “best thin...  Read More

The story of Jesus includes many moments around tables, as this was part of his ritual of relationship even to the last. In this fifth week of the Lent season, we will hear a story of love and devotio...  Read More

Judgment. Judgment. Judgment. Who among us doesn’t struggle with this… judging others, judging ourselves. And usually we are our own harshest critics. Some preachers have expressed a worry about how t...  Read More

In this Month's Newsletter:Preacher's Part from Pastor DavidA Note From Pastor DonnieMonthly MissionPastor's DiscretionaryHospitalityThe Church MouseEaster Egg HuntCommunion for the Home boundBirthday...  Read More

As we continue our look at what it means to release oppressive expectations about perfection in our lives and in our faith, this week we turn to a harmful idea that the prescription for our fear of fa...  Read More

We continue our movement through the Lent season this week with another kind of “letting go.” This week we lament that so much in life is out of our control. This is frustrating to us and so sometimes...  Read More

The liturgical season of Lent developed over the centuries as a time of deepened reflection. Originally a period of preparation for baptisms on Easter Eve, it later became a time for all Christians to...  Read More