What is to Prevent Me?
April 29, 2018 Acts 8:26-40 By Jennifer Garrison Brownell In today’s scripture story, one of the early apostles, Philip, meets a eunuch. A eunuch occupies that which we are coming
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By Jerry Mathis It’s evening of the first day of the week. Sunday. Not today, but two weeks ago. Easter.Resurrection Day. The disciples, some of them, have gathered in a
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April 8, 2017 Luke 24:36b-48 and Acts 4:32-35 By: Jennifer Garrison Brownell At a neighborhood health food cooperative in St. Paul Minnesota where I worked in 1990, our clientele was
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Easter Sermon April 1, 2018 by: Jennifer Garrison Brownell According to Miles Townes, the last time Easter fell on April Fools’ Day was in 1956. Due to the quirks involved
Continue readingEducation in the Progressive Christian Tradition
One of the national UCC’s slogans is: “God is Still Speaking”. That statement has always spoken to me when I think of how we embrace Christian Education at First Congregational
Continue readingThe 2008 Children’s Christmas Program
Here in Vancouver, it isn’t often that we get snow falling during the Christmas season so we help generate that Christmas feeling with a Children’s Christmas program. This year, not
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. July 24-28, 2008 University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee
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To celebrate our new year, the Youth Group had a Lock-In on January 3rd. One of the traditional highlights of the event was a rousing game of Sardines – but
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