Cleveland Park Congregational UCC
Nurturing love of God and love of neighbor in the world
I invite you to read my bi-weekly newsletters below for reflections on Sunday worship and updates on congregational life. I hope, and believe, you will also enjoy my Sermons. I look forward to seeing you and sharing worship with you.
Blessings,
Pastor Ellen
Please call or e-mail to schedule time with Pastor Ellen:
M, W, Th: Appointments and visits
Tuesday: Day off
Friday: Sermon and study day
Here are some spiritual resources that I find myself returning to time and again. I hope you will also enjoy them.
UCC Feed Your Spirit
Bite in the Apple
Patheos.com
The Listening Hermit
RickMorley.com
Larry Patten.com
Dear Church Friends,
I hope you’ll join us for this Sunday’s Welcome Back Service & Harvest Lunch. The service is designed for all ages, and afterward the Deacons will provide a delicious sandwich and salad picnic (if the weather cooperates, we’ll have outdoor seating).
The View from Here: In the midst of national chaos, it can be difficult to know the best role for a church. From my perspective, we’re both unavoidably located within the cultural context of our
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Dear Church,
This Sunday, we have two special events: Rev. Matt Braddock will preach about his new book, The Space Between: Spiritual Activism in an Age of Fear, and we’ll hold our second annual midyear “un-meeting.”
Matt is a friend and colleague from Christ Congregational UCC in Silver Spring and I’m excited to hear his sermon (I’ll be leading worship). As his website explains:
This book explores the overlapping spaces between contemplative action and active contemplation.
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Dear Church,
I’m glad to be back after a wonderful month of family gatherings, spiritual retreat, reading and reflection (along with dog walking, son wrangling and housekeeping!). I do kind of wonder if DC now has a monsoon season. If so, it won’t last for three months, will it?
Happily, my time at the Wild Goose Festival in Hot Springs, NC was mostly dry (though very hot). I hereby invite all of you to attend next year, because
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Summer Greetings~
Keep on, keepin’ on. This seems to be our challenge and call as we move through a week that has brought more upheaval and concern to a country already reeling. As I preached last Sunday: “There are only means. No ends. Or, at least, we don’t know what the end will be. That’s why ‘the next right thing’ is all we really need to determine.” So, what is your next step? I’ve suggested a few ideas
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Greetings~
And congratulations to our high school graduates: Anders Brodnax, Sarah Brodnax, Tate Corrales, Maggie Davis, Cole Maner and Cole Osborne. It seems like only yesterday (four years ago) they were confirmed, and now they’re heading out into the world! We wish them traveling mercies and Godspeed.
Speaking of high school, Katie Lootens is looking for a co-leader to assist with next year’s teen group (comprised of this year’s nine confirmands). If you’d
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