Messy Church happens at 4:30 pm on January 12. Invite your neighbors and friends to this fun, interactive hands-on ministry. Dinner is served at 5:30 pm.
This is our chance as a congregation to make a heart connection with our kids and families who may be new to our church or even new to Christian faith. Passing on our story means that every believer gets the opportunity to share the ways in which God has rescued them. Life is Messy, why ...
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January 5
On this first Sunday of 2020 we celebrate the Lord’s Supper in worship. Catherine Neelly Burton preaches, and we shift our focus to the gospel of Mark. The scripture for the day is Mark 1:21-45. We begin our January worship series, “Why Church?”
January 12
Our scripture for the day is Mark 2:1-22. Catherine Neelly Burton preaches.
January 19
Catherine Neelly Burton preaches from Mark 4:1-34.
January 26
This is the final Sunday of our “Why Church?” series. Catherine Neelly Burton preaches from Mark 5:1-20.
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This fall in worship we started in the book of Genesis and traveled through the Old Testament together. Along with hundreds of other congregations we are using the Narrative Lectionary. The Narrative Lectionary seeks to create an arc of the story of scripture by selecting stories for us to focus on each week.
In January we enter the book of Mark, and we stay in Mark through Easter Sunday. Mark is the shortest of the four gospels and the oldest. Together ...
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In January we enter the book of Mark. As we encounter Jesus and explore what the stories in Mark mean for us today, we also ask the question, “Why Church?” More and more Americans choose not to make church part of their lives. There’s little cultural pressure to be part of a church. Instead there’s something more, much more actually, that ...
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Cheri Ochs Wheeler, from Marion Presbyterian Church, and myself just returned from a week- long visit to Cuba. The purpose of our trip was two-fold. We visited the Reformed Presbyterian church in Placetas to further explore the possibility of forming a mission partnership with our churches. The second part of our visit, we attended a meeting with the El Centro Presbytery, Baltimore Presbytery and Central Florida Presbytery. It was an annual business meeting reviewing the partnerships the two United States ...
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