Pastoral Message | January 2023
“What’s new?” We sometimes greet someone we haven’t seen in awhile with this greeting, an open invitation to catch up on life’s details that have marked the passing of recent …
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Category: Pastors’ Letters
Pastoral Message | December 2022
If you didn’t already know, you may have suspected that I spent the first, almost 50 years of my life worshipping, being shaped by, and formed in Baptist theology and …
Pastoral Message | November 2022
In November 2007, I preached my “Candidating Sermon” on Christ the King Sunday, and waited anxiously with my family in the Library while the congregation voted to call me as …
Pastoral Message | October 2022
I hope that each of you had an opportunity to participate in Rally Day last month. It was an exciting day in the life of our congregation—Journey Worship resumed with …
Pastoral Message | September 2022
A friend suggested I set up a TikTok account. She assured me that there were inspirational people I could follow and no shortage of videos that would make me laugh. …
Pastoral Message | August 2022
I was recently asked to reflect and write a short piece for another newsletter reflecting on two questions: What disruption did your church experience during the last two years? How …
Pastoral Message | July 2022
Seasons of transition stir up a lot of feelings: sentiments of the past; thoughts about “the way things have always been;” concerns and hopes for a future that seems so …
Pastoral Message from the Rev. Heather Schoenewolf | June 2022
Where have I seen the Holy Spirit at Work? I don’t usually experience the Holy Spirit with the same fierce, shocking power as the disciples did on Pentecost. For me, …
Pastoral Message from the Rev. Patrice Fowler-Searcy | June 2022
Where Have I Seen the Holy Spirit at Work? Like the followers of Jesus, who were hiding on the day of Pentecost, I have seen the Holy Spirit at work …
Pastoral Message | May 2022
This year, May is an in-between month on the liturgical calendar. It falls between the two church holidays of Easter (April 17) and Pentecost (June 5). It is still a …