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3/29/23: Justice & Witness & Volunteers

3/29/23 BLOG: Justice & Witness AND Volunteers Fred had an energetic and well-fed group or 21 come together to talk about a new model for doing Justice & Witness. This vision considered limited project areas to focus on, one being our Refuge family, the Tatarenkos; come together perhaps quarterly for a pot luck and sharing »

3/22/23: Listening Posts News (by Karen McClintock)

People are asking, “When will we get the results from the Listening Posts?” Data from 76 participants at 12 group meetings has been collated and is being interpreted by our consultant Rev. Dr. Karen McClintock and the Self-study Team of Laurie True, Sandy Theis, Becky Martin, Kari Gies, Hannah Horn, and Leslie Stone. Six questions »

3/15/23: Justice & Witness

This Saturday, at noon, Pastor Fred is having a meeting at church of EVERYONE who is interested in Justice & Witness in our church. You probably are aware that we have not had a Ministry Team this year, given that no one would step up to lead the charge. But Justice & Witness has been »

3/1/23: Connections

Karen is being asked “what next?” Here is her response to her team: “We are already seeing the results! People have been able to share their grief, their hopes, and their experiences with others in a way that has been healing and helping us to move forward. We are grateful for so many participants who »

2/22/23: Feedback to our staff

2/22/23 BLOG: Feedback to our staff When sitting in church, do you ever have something come up that you are bursting to say to one of our amazing staff members? Something Fred said that struck you? A piece of music that Karl played? Wendy’s friendliness? Or Phil’s smooth management of the zoom service? Or something »

2/15/23: This and That

Did you sign-up for Valentines Chocolates by Anya? Oh my—were these quite delicious. Al and I got two boxes so we didn’t have to compromise. Anya also makes cakes—you can request one for your birthday party? I missed it, but she made quite a delicious sheet cake for after church recently. Finance Committee has been »

2/8/23: Breeze SignUps

Is there Breeze fatigue? Do you receive a Breeze request to sign-up and go “Ugh!”—delete! When I receive these messages, I often think—I’ll look at it later, only to have it buried in my volume of email. Or maybe you aren’t getting the requests—our lists grow stale! One of the things that Breeze is very »

2/1/23: Something New

Fred is now leading a Bible Study—deep dive into the text—Friday at noon on zoom. Link is in the eWeekly. I attended last week and really like Fred’s style. I learned about translations, what that could tell us about what Jesus said or did; about authorship and what that tells us. The Beatitudes are so »

1/25/23: Celebrations

btw, there are a number of spaces for Listening Post on Tuesday, Jan 31st. Please consider that if you have not yet participated. I ran short on time at the Quarterly meeting to fully celebrate the generous gifts of the FMMT & Bylaws Committee. So I will use this space to do so—please thank these »

1/18/23: 2022 in Review

If you have made any donations to our church in the past year, you recently received a statement of your giving (for those without an email, it will be coming). On a church-wide basis, we received $269k from 143 donors. With the statement, I sent out a list of some of what has been accomplished »

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