Blog Archive
December 2022
12/28/22: Christmas just past
I am writing this on Christmas Day, laid up as I am, quarantined with Covid. We are both taking Paxlovid and feeling better, looking forward to being well! The focus of church at this time of year is always Christmas—and Fred did such an amazing job of providing enriching Christmas Eve Services (I watched both »
CONTINUE READINGChristmas Day, Dec. 25 – Storytime
View this recorded version of the Sunday service on December 25, 2022. Featuring: Members of the congregation gather around the fireplace and tell stories of their Christmas memories.
CONTINUE READINGChristmas Eve, Dec. 24 – Candlelight Service
View this recorded version of the 8:00 o’clock candlelight service on December 24, 2022. Candlelight Service Featuring music from a local string quartet.
CONTINUE READINGChristmas Eve, Dec. 24 – Family Service
View this recorded version of the 5:00 o’clock family service on December 24, 2022. Family Service: Featuring: interpretive dance, puppets, and a visit from a shepherd in the field.
CONTINUE READING12/21/22: Living our Radical Welcome!
In this season of welcoming Christ into our lives, an act of Radical Welcome, I have pondered the ways we try and live out this vision of ours—“together following Jesus on the Way of Radical Love.” We try … and there is always room to try more Lately, our locked front door has been seen »
CONTINUE READINGSunday, December 18 – “The Experience of Birthing the Christ”
View this recorded version of Sunday Worship from December 18, 2022. Bible Verses Matthew 1: 18-25 Reflection: The Experience of Birthing the Christ Excerpts from the reflection by Rev. Dr. Fred Grewe: “So as the story goes… Joseph and Mary were to be engaged and in that time and place engagement could easily have been »
CONTINUE READING12/14/22 Blog: Listening Post Experience
Last Saturday I had the opportunity to sit in on the first Listening Post, held for the Self-Study group. It was a safe and supportive environment for answering questions that Karen has put together to ask us all. In this case, I was a scribe. I wrote down all that was said but not who »
CONTINUE READINGDecember 11, 2022 – “The God We Don’t Want”
View this recorded version of Sunday Worship from December 11, 2022. Bible Verses Matthew 11:2-11 Reflection: “The God We Don’t Want” Excerpts from the sermon by Rev. Dr. Fred Grewe: “John [the Baptizer] has been imprisoned, by Herod, the King, for a while, and it’s believed he was in a castle called Machaerus in a »
CONTINUE READING12/7/22: Listening Posts
We have hired Dr. Rev Karen McClintock to support our healing from whatever happened in this church over the past year or years. She is an expert at this sort of things—has worked with many churches, with great success. She has a Self-Study Team (Kari Gies, Hannah Horn, Becky Martin, Leslie Stone, Sandy Theis, Laurie »
CONTINUE READINGSunday, December 4 – “The Way of Transformation”
View this recorded version of Sunday Worship from December 4, 2022. Bible Verses Romans 15:4-13 and Matthew 3: 1-12 Reflection: The Way of Transformation Excerpts from the reflection by Rev. Dr. Fred Grewe: “In the first text, from Paul’s letter to the Romans, there were several things that that stand out for me. Paul Encourages »
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