Over the past few weeks, our congregation has experienced a season of profound loss. We have said goodbye to beloved members of our church family: Bill, Susan, Carolyn, Nancy, and Carol. We continue to hold their families, friends, and all who loved them in our prayers. Grief is not something that passes quickly. The loss […]
This week, I had the sacred privilege of sitting at the bedside of a beloved member of our congregation. She had been in the hospital for nearly a week after a long journey with cancer. Life support had been removed. When I entered the room, she lay peacefully—her eyes open but unresponsive, her breathing slow […]
Each May, we celebrate an important milestone in the lives of many in our congregation as students graduate from high school, college, graduate school, and other programs of study. To all of our graduates: congratulations. We are incredibly proud of you. Graduation is a moment to pause and celebrate the hard work, perseverance, and dedication […]
My parents celebrated the very first Earth Day in 1970 when our family was living in Burlington, Iowa. To commemorate the day, they filled our little red wagon with newspapers to recycle, and somehow that small act landed us in The Hawk Eye newspaper the next day. I was too young to remember all the […]
On Thursday morning we learned that we lost two beloved members of our congregation, Bill Wynne and Susan Kensill. In the midst of the flurry of church activities, I was blessed with a message on WhatsApp from Liset Amador, a member of the congregation in Placetas, Cuba. She wrote: We live our lives constantly rushing—from […]
