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Dear Church Community,

I preached last Sunday about Something New. And right after worship, our congregation’s Annual Meeting focused on a number of new things!

First, a special welcome to our new Moderator, Holly Hancock. I look forward to her tenure and am excited about the updated leadership model, our balanced 2021 budget, the continuing capital campaign renovations, and our yet-to-be-determined capital campaign mission project.

As I shared Sunday, I’ve changed my 2021 sabbatical plans and will be taking

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Dear Church Community,

I hope you’ll join me this Sunday, Jan 31, for the Annual Meeting of our Congregation. This is an important event in the life of any UCC church; in our denomination every voice has a vote, and we need yours!

You should receive a copy of the Annual Report via email today or tomorrow, and I ask that you review it before Sunday. In addition, a few weeks ago you were emailed a copy of the

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We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of Love into the veins of our civilization. ~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I waited until today to write this email, because I honestly wasn’t sure how yesterday would turn out. To my relief and delight, it was glorious!

I watched with joy as three of our former Presidents welcomed our new President. I watched with pride as the first woman (Black and Asian!) was

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“All shall be well, all shall be well… For there is a Force of love moving through the universe That holds us fast and will never let us go.” – Lady Julian of Norwich, c.a. 1342-1416

I need these words today.  Perhaps you do, too. 

It’s been quite a year, thus far.  And we’re only fourteen days into it.  I wonder if some of you, like me, were “holding on” till the end of 2020, “powering through” with the belief

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Epiphanous Greetings,

Yesterday was the Feast of the Epiphany, a Christian holiday focused on both the celebration of the three magi coming to worship the baby Jesus and the baptism of the adult Jesus.  Each of these were unexpected events, unveilings of a truth underlying appearance.  The helpless baby, who appeared to be a newborn infant of peasant parents, was revealed as the Holy One.  The itinerant adult, who appeared to be a rabble-rousing rabbi from Galilee, was revealed

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