Events for March 4, 2025 - March 4, 2025

Enough Trouble Rachael Pryor January 31, 2025     As I travel the highways and valleys of this beautiful Conference, I often describe my basic driving safety strategy as “not going faster than the car in front of me.” This dry humor has evolved into a metaphor for daily life in my role as Conference Minister. Dreaming about the possibilities…

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Dear friends in Christ, Last week we had an extraordinary opportunity for service. A woman and her eight year-old son reached out to Family Solutions Center. She had been working and housed, but when a relationship ended she became displaced. Trying to care for her son and maintain employment without housing proved impossible. She was not able to maintain her…

Dear friends in Christ, This week during worship we will be reading the story of Elisha and the Widow’s Oil from the book of Kings. It is a familiar miracle story, but it has much to teach us about communities coming together and God acting when times are tough and we feel as though nothing we can do will ever…

Dear friends in Christ, This Sunday we will be studying a passage from Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, in which he talks a lot about anger. The Ephesians were angry with each other and angry at the world and angry at the government and religion. Paul needed to lessen the anger, but his words are confusing and conflicting at first…

Dear friends in Christ, This Sunday we will be reading a passage from Acts about the Apostle Paul’s fall from grace and restoration. While we might be tempted to think of Paul as a “bad man” who received grace and then became a “good man,” it’s quite a bit more complicated than that. Paul was shaped by the political injustices…