Moderator's Memos

Going Forward, Turning Back

We continue to make progress toward a new chapter in our Church’s history. I say “make progress” rather than “advance” because we are actually going forward and turning back at the same time. We are going forward with hybrid worship. We will also soon be contemplating and acting on Pastor Ellen’s sabbatical theme of “What’s Next?”. The future promises changes, but we don’t know yet what they will be. In turning back, we were all delighted

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Dear Church Family,
 
We are finally returning to in-person services in the sanctuary. For now we are still masking and keeping social distance. But in the coming weeks, assuming Covid continues to recede, we will be able to reduce the restrictions and resume coffee hour activities. We will proceed with caution, of course, but the prospects of a return to “normalcy” are looking up.
 
Our tech team is getting quite good at handling hybrid worship and things are

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Dear Church Family,
 
Spring is just around the corner and so is our return to hybrid worship. Beginning on March 6th, we invite you to be present in the sanctuary or join us online. This will be our practice going forward in our second century.
 
Let us end hibernation,
Resume hybridation,
That’s how we are welcoming spring.
It’s the goal we’re pursuing
To get back to doing
Our antecovidian thing.
 
(OK, a little creative vocabulary there

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Dear Church Family,
 
Pastor Ellen spoke to us on Sunday about miracles and reminded us that God’s presence with us is the greatest of them all. Some miracles are so mundane as to go barely noticed in our daily lives, like the clear blue of the sky or the crisp winter breeze in our faces. Others are so unexpected as to be hardly credible, like the Bengals in the Super Bowl.
 
Here’s my lim-miracle condensation of Pastor

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