Greetings Church family! Welcome back! We are pleased to announce a return to live worship gatherings for the month of June. It’s been a long swim, but we’re crossing this river together. Thank you for your faithfulness and flexibility. Your pastors and deacons...
As a pastor, I struggle with defining success in ministry. Like anyone involved in a work with an unquantifiable end product, I find success hard to measure. As church leaders, we do not count the widgets we make or the gadgets we sell. In last week’s post, we noted...
For the next three weeks, I’ll be publishing a series of posts to help us think through the re-opening of our church. We’ll need to purposefully transition from Phase 1 to Phase 2 of the North Carolina government’s guidelines, and ultimately into Phase 3 and beyond....
Call me old fashioned, but I love traditions. I think my love for traditions is a side effect of the fact that I really don’t love change. I’ll be the first to admit it: if I were a character in a Dr. Seuss book, my line would be, “I do not like change, Sam I Am, nor...
It was June 1987 as we watched President Ronald Reagan on TV. He stood at the Brandenburg Gate of the Berlin Wall, which separated West Germany from the oppressed East Germany. Flags representing freedom hung boldly for the public in the West to see. In his speech,...
