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Hi, Everybody, and Happy Fourth of July! (tomorrow): This Sunday, July 5th, is the 5th Sunday after Pentecost.  We continue to have our online worship services in lieu of in-person worship at the church due to COVID-19 (you have heard of it, haven’t you?).  As usual, we will be having a Zoom Coffee Chat at 10 am.  I am attaching the Zoom information […]

Pastor Tim’s Devotion for July, 03, 2020: Don’t Give Up We sure have seen a lot of different yard signs in the last few months haven’t we? From graduation, birthday and wedding anniversaries to Black Lives Matter and Thank You Health Care Workers. I saw the one above on one of my walks the other

Pastor Tia’s Devotion for July 01, 2020: “Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.” (Dr. William Butler, 17th Century English Writer) I fully agree. Doubtless God didn’t make a better berry. (Sorry, raspberry, currant, blackberry…). One of my best times in my life was when I lived on a

Devotion for Monday, June 29, 2020, by Pastor Barbara Caine “What possible spiritual significance could a trip to the grocery store have?  How could something as common as a toothache be a door to greater life?  No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual

Join us for an online worship service! This Sunday, June 28, is the 4th Sunday after Pentecost and Vacation Bible School Sunday!  This year’s theme is Rocky Railway.”  All this week Terri and her helpers have been conducting VBS by Zoom.  Some said they were crazy to want to have a virtual VBS – that they had loco motives – but Terri and

Pastor Tim’s Devotion for June 26, 2020: How will you mark June 29th? In case you have not seen the important message from the ELCA I share it with you now. “The Church of Christ in every age, beset by change but Spirit-led, must claim and test its heritage, and keep on rising from the

Pastor Tia’s Devotion for June 24, 2020: Dear Zoomed-in-and-out Saints! Do you know this feeling of tiredness after a Zoom meeting? This deep exhaustion after having stared at the screen and it’s so hard not to get distracted and to start doing something else (like checking my Emails or turning off the video and muting

Pastor Barbara’s Devotion for June 22, 2020 Dear Church, In the very first chapter of The Acts of the Apostles, right before the Holy Spirit came to them at Pentecost, the apostles were in a dilemma.  There were only 11 apostles left after Judas betrayed Jesus.  So they did something unexpected.  We are told that 120 believers gathered

Join us for today’s service! This Sunday, June 21st, is the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost, Fill the Food Barrel Sunday, and Father’s Day!  Unfortunately, as we still aren’t worshiping in person, we can’t have the children hand out tiny wrenches to all the men in the congregation, but we will have a Liturgy for Men of Faith during our online worship service. Also this