Partly because of the church concert schedule, and partly to encourage more participation, this year's Live Nativity will be on Sunday, December 18, at our usual worship hour! We'll start indoors, so come on in and listen to Mary Jane on the piano, but keep your coats with you. After the choir sings their anthem,…
Christmas Eve
Christmas Worship Schedule Christmas Pageant Our church school will be presenting a Christmas Play called Matt and Lucy's Version Birth on Sunday, December 20 during our normal worship hours. The play is a humorous and devotional look at the two versions of the Christmas story and will call for a good bit of audience participation…
Worship through Puppetry
On April 10, 2011, our Sunday morning worship was led by our children as they presented two puppet shows -- both about living in this world well, even in the midst of trauma and difficulty. The first puppet show was about the Good Samaritan and the second about "good" clouds and "bad clouds". Here are…
Rosalie Chase
These Things Shall Never Die by Charles Dickens The Bright, the Pure, the Beautiful That stirr'd our Hearts in Youth The Impluses to Wordless Prayer The Dreams of Love and Truth The Longing after something Lost The Spirits Yearning Cry The striving after better Hopes -- These Things Can Never Die. The timid Hand stretched…
Demythologizing Christian Education
Image via Wikipedia Adolf Harnack begins his 1895 lecture titled Christianity and History by asking whether it is legitimate to maintain the "indisoluable unity" of the historical fact of "Christ's person," with the church's creed. His question, one hundred years later, is still a live one. How do we teach our children the stories of…