Pastors' Blog

Nov 09, 2022 - Kent French

This autumn, our worship follows our Church School curriculum, Seeking God Together. We are learning in worship alongside the youngest members of our community.

Many of you know that the most important part of worship for me is the cycle of confession, assurance and passing the peace. Why? Because I really believe the cliché that "confession is good for soul." We ALL mess up. We ALL...

Nov 03, 2022 - Kent French

REMINDER: Daylight Savings ends this Sunday, set clocks back one hour.

This autumn, our worship follows our Church School curriculum, Seeking God Together. We are learning in worship alongside the youngest members of our community.

One year ago, our Music Minister Susan launched the Negro...

Oct 27, 2022 - Amy Norton

This autumn, our worship follows our Church School curriculum, Seeking God Together. We are learning in worship alongside the youngest members of our community.

In Sunday's Gospel story, we hear a story of ten men with skin diseases (assumed to be leprosy) who ask Jesus for help. The story explains that "when Jesus saw them, he said, '...

Oct 20, 2022 - Kent French

This autumn, our worship follows our Church School curriculum, Seeking God Together. We are learning in worship alongside the youngest members of our community.

O God, how manifold are your works; in wisdom you have made them all. Psalm 104:24

Lately I've been watching lots of sunrises. And while I do, I marvel that we still speak of them as the sun rising or setting on us. Or...

Oct 13, 2022 - Kent French

This autumn, our worship follows our Church School curriculum, Seeking God Together. We are learning in worship alongside the youngest members of our community.

My friend Lisa is one of the best cooks I know. For years now, Robert and I have enjoyed regular meals with her and her husband Peter in their home, as well as ours. After I had knee surgery, Lisa came over and made a meal in...

Oct 04, 2022 - Amy Norton

This autumn, our worship follows our Church School curriculum, Seeking God Together. We are learning in worship alongside the youngest members of our community.

This Sunday, however, we take a break from our curriculum for Indigenous Peoples' weekend and turn to this message that God spoke through the Prophet Jeremiah:

"This...

Sep 29, 2022 - Kent French

This autumn, our worship follows our Church School curriculum, Seeking God Together. We are learning in worship alongside the youngest members of our community.

This Sunday, we look forward to welcoming the Reverend Carrington Moore, Executive Director of common cathedral, one of our ministry partners that holds worship...

Sep 22, 2022 - Kent French

This autumn, our worship follows our Church School curriculum, Seeking God Together. We are learning in worship alongside the youngest members of our community.

Many of us in this congregation lead busy lives. We fill our time with appointments, meetings, to-do lists, commitments, for ourselves and for our families. And too often, it's how we evaluate if our life has meaning: am I...

Sep 15, 2022 - Kent French

Last Sunday, we had a lively Welcome Back worship service on the lawn, punctuated with a last-minute rain shower and a quick pivot to move our usual outdoor picnic indoors. Amy and I spoke of the importance of call -- how God calls us individually and how God is calling us as a congregation amid a building crisis.

At the heart of discerning God's call for our lives is prayer, an active, ongoing, direct conversation with God. We heard last week how Moses had a direct conversation to...

Sep 08, 2022 - Kent French

This Sunday, we will hold worship on our front lawn.Family worship at 9:45amWelcome Back worship at 11amFollowed by an all-parish lunch on the lawn!

At the heart of our church's vision (from 2012) is the idea of "Call-Equip-Serve," meaning that each one of us is: 1. Called to do some kind of ministry, and can be 2. Equipped by our church community to do it, so that we...

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