Cuba Partnership

Cuba Partnership

Darcy Eads and Carolyn Shaw are connecting with our sister church, Placetas, in Placetas, Cuba, and their pastor and his wife each week to share one or two prayer concerns for Grace to lift up along with them praying for us. This week, they shared this joy, the children’s Christmas Eve pageant.  They also asked for prayers for Phoebe, Edith, and Yamila, who live alone, and the holidays are lonely for them. For John Carlos and Thalía – two kids ...

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Congregational Meeting to Elect Pastor Nominating Committee and a Deacon

Congregational Meeting to Elect Pastor Nominating Committee and a Deacon

Monday, December 16, 2024, the Stated Session meeting, the Session received the Nominating Committee’s report for the members of the Pastor Nominating Committee (PNC): Mitzi Darmstetter, Kevin East, Bruce Gealy, Adam Lancelot, Janet Rhoads, Carolyn Shaw, and Ginny Vincent. The Session also called a Special Congregational meeting for Sunday, January 12, 2025, immediately following the 11:00 am Worship Service to elect the Pastor Nominating Committee (PNC) members and Paula Lancelot to the Deacon Class of 2027.

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12-29-2024 Rev Steven Marsh – Love Links Us to One Another and Others

12-29-2024 Rev Steven Marsh – Love Links Us to One Another and Others

“Worshipping Our God of Unconditional Love (Together, in a Variety of Ways)”

“Love Links Us To One Another and Others” – 1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26, Luke 2:41-52

The Christ Candle is lit. The messiah of hope, peace, joy and love has entered the world. Humanity has been offered grace. The fourth century bishop of Hippo, Augustine, writes this about the significance of the birth of Jesus as God’s most tangible expression of grace, the grace available to humanity,

Our Lord came down from ...

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A Word from Our Interim Pastor – The Rev. Dr. Steven M. Marsh

A Word from Our Interim Pastor – The Rev. Dr. Steven M. Marsh

Happy New Year everyone. And I hope each of you has had an opportunity to reflect on all that happened in our world, nation, state, county, city, and most importantly in each of our lives.

Yes, 2024 has gone, and 2025 is here. Like many of you, I examine where I have been and where I want to go with my life when the calendar year changes. I do not make resolutions, but I do take a good look at the ...

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Steve's Word

12-24-2029 Rev Steven Marsh – Christmas Eve 2024

12-24-2029 Rev Steven Marsh – Christmas Eve 2024

Worshipping Our God of Unconditional Love (Together, in a Variety Ways)

“Love Wins” – Isaiah 9:2-7, Luke 2:1-20

Peter Wehner, an opinion writer for The New York Times, writes this about Philip Yancey’s book, What’s So Amazing About Grace?  Wehner writes,

In his book What’s So Amazing About Grace? Philip Yancey describes a conference on comparative religions where experts from around the world debated which belief, if any, was unique to the Christian faith. C.S. Lewis happened to enter the room during the ...

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