November 26, 2025 Blessed Thanksgiving Leaves and Blossoms Along the Way– Mary Oliver If you’re John Muir you want trees to live among. If you’re Emily, a garden will do. Try to find the right place for yourself. If you can’t find it, at least dream of it. When one is alone and lonely, the […]

November 12, 2025 Federal Friendsgiving Coming Next Week!Friday, November 21, 20255:30 pm Let’s give thanks for each other, even and especially, in hard times. Come! for an evening of tasty and comforting food, casual conversation, and joyful play. Children welcome! We will have activities for the young and young-at-heart. If you want, bring a side dish, […]

November 5, 2025 Growing Forward Together meets The Will to Dream! Our 2026 stewardship theme, “Growing Forward Together!” dovetails with our upcoming Advent Theme from Illustrated Ministry, “The Will to Dream!” Check this mid-week message week-to-week and discover all the ways God is helping us to do both! Join us at Epiphany in this Joy-filled and Wild […]

October 29, 2025 Stewardship 2026 Jesus said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes […]

October 22, 2025 Jesus said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest […]

October 15, 2025 I heard a parishioner say once that they come to church to be reminded to be a better person in the world. It was so simple. No deep theological or doctrinal explorations. I’ve thought about that often. We, of course, follow a liturgy. There’s doctrine. We worship, and sing, pray and hear […]

October 8, 2025 How a Mailbox Changed my Life May our heart carry our feet. Amen.— Matthew McConaughey from Poems & Prayers In December of 2005, Laura and I got married. Neither one of us was currently attending a church on a regular basis, so we opted to have a civil wedding. I am a […]

October 2, 2025 Friends, yesterday the federal government shut down. Many civil servants and contractors are not working, including some in our congregation. It has been a tense time and jobs have been tenuous for quite a while, even before the shutdown. There has been so much support offered in prayers and checking in. That […]

September 24, 2025 Pre-COVID, I was feeling stalled in my faith journey and I needed a change to get me out of the rut. Coming out of COVID, I felt I was able to step away from my church family and see if I could find what I needed in another.  My prior church was […]

September 17, 2025 My husband and I had been trying to conceive for years by the spring of 2020. I was feeling very depressed and looking for spiritual comfort, so I researched churches in the area that had Celtic services because I loved attending the Celtic service in my college town. It was just before […]