Dear Church Family and Friends, A fair amount of attention was recently directed toward a series of pictures taken by an AP photographer named Charlie Riedel. Riedel had captured the
Continue readingDear Church Family and Friends, In case you did not already know, our church loves kids. On Sunday, our congregation voted during worship to select the Children’s Alliance as our
Continue readingDear Church Family and Friends, In February, our Council voted that we would collectively commit to a church-wide social action program running over the course of a year. The official
Continue readingDear Church Family and Friends, During part of my childhood, I suffered from a typical adolescent malady: the neighborhood bully and his crew of snickering cronies had given me the
Continue readingDear Church Family and Friends, Recently, I watched a delightful Italian movie called “The Tiger and the Snow.” It is a romantic comedy staring Roberto Benigni, who won the Oscar
Continue readingDear Church Family and Friends, For our current newsletter, I thought I would share with you a speech I delivered at a rally in Olympia on February 27th. People from
Continue readingDear Church Family and Friends, Recently, along with others from our church, I attended the Earth Care Summit sponsored by Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon and their Interfaith Network for Earth
Continue readingIn place of a sermon this past Sunday, we listened to a reading from the blog of Kim and Patrick Bentrott, two missionaries for Global Ministries, the mission organization for
Continue readingEvery year our church joins with other faith communities to celebrate Equality Sabbath, a day set aside to promote LGBTQ equality and inclusion. This year Equality Sabbath for our church
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