It is with joy and excitement that we announce Sheri Wilson to the position of Sanctuary Manager! Sheri brings the very same progressive faith-based values to our community that we embrace, along with a strong strategic and administrative background. Her very…
Christmas, 2014 Dear Ones, I wrote to our elders in a Christmas card this week that while the holidays seem to always make us nostalgic—as a faith community we are particularly so this year as we celebrate Christmas for the…
What an exciting week - further visioning with the staff team, raging floods in the back room (ask me to see the video if you have not), rumors of locusts headed down High Street, interviews with candidates for the Business…
A voice cries out: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground…
You know the commercial right? Unintentionally campy and overly dramatic (although it is a pretty dramatic thing when one is unable to get off the floor after having fallen, either because of age or disability) the 1989 advertisement for a…
We just love that big, old, classic processional, don’t we? Imagine the organ hitting that big, bass G on the first beat and your heart stirs and you open your mouth because you know this hymn in the very core…
This past Tuesday fourteen members and staff gathered to talk about how our call to be sanctuary might get lived out through the mission and outreach ministries of our faith community. The conversation was rich, exciting and faithful. We organized…
“All peoples on earth will be blessed through you…” Genesis 12:3b I gotta’ tell you that I am happy--really happy. This week, as I sat with an interested listener, talking about what we are doing and how it has been…
Beloved, What a glorious day we had last Sunday as we thanked God for the blessing of our building and all of the ministries which had transpired therein, let go of any negativity onto which we were holding, decommissioned our…
There is something poignant about the fact that our final days after 110 years in our beautiful, solid as a Gothic rock, 1904 structure, come to pass in the midst of the glory that we all know as autumn in…