Jul 21, 2025 | In This Moment, Now. Here. This., With These People
By Julie Long, Pastor Last week while our kids were gone to Passport camps, I took advantage of a couple of quieter days to go on a spiritual retreat of my own. As I approach my first anniversary as pastor, I wanted to spend some time in reflection on this first year...
May 6, 2025 | Announcements, Now. Here. This., With These People
Note: Connie Jones offered these words as a devotional to begin our church council meeting on April 27, and members of the council recommended that her words be shared with the full congregation. Now the Lord said to Abraham, “Go from your country and your kindred and...
Mar 4, 2025 | In This Moment, Now. Here. This., With These People
Recently the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, our denominational partner, and several other plaintiffs filed asking the Department of Homeland Security to restore sensitive locationstatus for houses of worship when it comes to matters of immigration law enforcement....
Feb 10, 2025 | In This Moment, Now. Here. This.
Last month, we began our Committee meeting by recognizing what our congregation accomplished on the facilities master planning front in 2024. Following the congregational listening sessions last January, the church entered into an agreement with St. Joseph’s Catholic...
Jan 14, 2025 | In This Moment, Now. Here. This.
Most of us don’t use the word “exciting” in the same sentence as the word “meeting” very often, but our next church conference meeting on Wednesday, January 29, at 6 p.m., will have a full agenda of exciting things! As we begin a new year, our congregation will be...
Dec 23, 2024 | In This Moment, Now. Here. This.
Advent begins a new church year in our worshipping life together, as we begin anew with reading the stories of Jesus and God’s redemption for the world in holy scripture. But organizationally, January 1 starts our new church year as our lay leaders transition in and...
Dec 10, 2024 | In This Moment, Now. Here. This.
Last Sunday’s Hanging of the Greens service was a fun and meaningful way to begin our Advent season together. Kids and youth sang and played music, from the festive sing-a-long with the preschool choir’s “Little Gray Donkey” to the beautiful renditions of more...
Oct 29, 2024 | In This Moment, Now. Here. This.
In the early 1920s, Martha Berry, founder of Berry College in Rome, attended a fundraising dinner in New York City. There she met Henry Ford, and she appealed to him to financially support the work of her small, country school back in Georgia. Ford dug around in his...
Oct 22, 2024 | In This Moment, Now. Here. This.
Last Sunday in worship, we observed one of the rituals that makes Baptists who we are–believer’s baptism by immersion. Next Sunday, October 27, we will practice another–church conference. One might not think of a meeting as being a key distinctive for a church or any...
Oct 15, 2024 | In This Moment, Now. Here. This.
This Sunday, October 13, our congregation celebrates with two of our young people, Stella Johansen and Harper Brown, as they follow Jesus calling them into the waters of baptism. Each time that I witness a baptism, I am reminded of my own. I was eight years old when I...
