Pastors’ Corner

Greetings. I look forward to serving you as your Bridge Pastor for the next couple of months. I also look forward to getting to know you over the next couple of months as we journey together while Pastor Hilary takes this time for rest and renewal. I generally, with few [...]

Well, it’s finally time…after more than a year of planning, my fourteen-week sabbatical starts this month. Sunday, April 16th is the last Sunday I will be with you before my sabbatical begins. You all will be in very good hands under the leadership of your bridge pastor, Mark Douyard. Mark [...]

The beginning of the new year is an appropriate time to reflect upon the past year and set intentions for the year to come. A good practice for this kind of reflection is one from the Catholic tradition called, “Examen”. This practice was devolved by Catholic Theologian, St. Ignatius of [...]

As we enter the month of November, it will soon be time to celebrate Thanksgiving. As Christians, we are called to be a people of gratitude and thanksgiving, remembering all of God’s good gifts to us. We’ve faced many challenged as a church over the past few years, yet we [...]

Dear HoC members and friends, Happy Fall, y’all! It’s time for cooler weather, cozy sweaters, pumpkin spice everything, and…stewardship season! It’s a great time to remember all the blessings God has given each of us, as well as our church over the past year. We’re continuing to put the COVID-19 [...]

The session gathered in August for a half-day retreat where we did some prayer, discernment and discussion around the theme, “What Next?” We used a resource published by the denomination which helped us do brainstorming and discussion looking at where we’ve come as a church during the pandemic period, as [...]

This summer, we’ve been looking at the book of Acts – the story of how the early community of Christ’s followers lived out their faith in Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit. We read in Acts how the Holy Spirit came down upon those gathered at Pentecost in [...]

We’ve all gone to the doctor and had our vital signs taken. The doctor checks our heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, height, weight, etc. These tests are done to develop a baseline for our health. If the numbers are in a normal range for our age and circumstances, our body [...]

As we’re finally emerging from the global COVID-19 pandemic (hopefully for real this time), we may be asking, “So, now what?” While some things are returning to “normal” (the way they were before the pandemic), the reality is that we’re never fully going to go back to what things were [...]

Thank you to all who participated in our sabbatical Zoom call with Connectional Presbyter Cindy Kohlmann and participated in our sabbatical coffee hour. I found the conversation encouraging and energizing. I appreciated the authenticity of the discussion, and I loved all the creative ideas that came out of those events. [...]