Spring Greetings!
I took advantage of not having a sermon to write this week (5/5 is Children’s Sunday) and spent some time working in my backyard. Three days and eight hours later, I’m sore and stuffy (the pollen!) but feel better, overall, than I have in months. As I preached last Sunday in Cathedrals and Climate Change, what we do to the earth, we do to ourselves, and this is true in the positive as well. Caring
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Pastor's Page
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:
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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
From Rev. Ellen Jennings
Blessings on this Holy Week,
During this Holy Week, we offer services on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday but not Holy Saturday. Thus, I share the following poem from poet/artist, Jan Richardson. She introduces it by writing:
Holy Saturday. This is the day between the dying and the rising. This day that calls us to hold our anguish and our hope in the same hand. This day that invites us to marvel that when our heart has
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From Rev. Ellen Jennings
Greetings~
Last Sunday’s service focused on spring cleaning and the importance of knowing what to keep and what to let go. I quoted Jan Richardson from the Painted Prayerbook, in which she writes: I can only find what belongs by clearing away everything that doesn’t. Jan’s an artist, but I feel confident her words apply to each one of us, whether or not we’ve ever picked up a paintbrush!
As we move toward the end of Lent,
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From Rev. Ellen Jennings
Spring Greetings~
As I write, the Vernal Equinox has arrived, and our hemisphere begins its slow tilt toward the sun. On this seasonal cusp, I pray we’ll each renew our journey toward the warmth of God’s Love, Light, and Justice and seek to share it with everyone we meet.
Since I last saw you, news of the mass shooting in New Zealand has filled the airwaves, breaking our hearts all over again. We mourn for the victims and
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From Rev. Ellen Jennings
As we begin this forty-day season, what are you called to do?
Last weekend LaTia Barrett and I participated in a Racial Justice Facilitator Training with thirty other UCC congregation members from the Central Atlantic Conference. To be honest, it wasn’t quite what we’d expected (or hoped), but it did provide an opportunity to think carefully about where our congregation is and what work lies ahead. At the moment, I’m letting these thoughts percolate, but I’ll soon meet with LaTia
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