Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. -Matthew 5:9 The season of peace is 4 weeks prior to World Communion Sunday (the 1st Sunday of October) and the giving and receiving of the Peace and Global Witness Offering. It is a time for individuals, families, congregations, and communities to grow…
As our world has turned and churned and changed over the past months, one of the things that has been brought to the light is that we, as humans, are very good at being bad to one another. Calvin’s total depravity has been on witness throughout these months, over masks, and restaurants, over toilet paper,…
We’ll be hosting a Red Cross Blood drive on July 28th, 2020 from 2 to 6 pm in the Fellowship Hall. The summer months have a particularly high need for blood, and a number of blood drives have had to be cancelled over the length of the COVID-19 pandemic, so supplies are down. If you…
For the foreseeable future, our worship will be based online. We are using Zoom as our worship platform. You can download Zoom from https://zoom.us/download or from your mobile platform app store. For the connection information please contact the church office. If you’d like to follow along in worship later, then we have two options: You can find our online worship recordings on…
Zoom is having issues this morning. The meeting is up, but none of you can join. If this persists, we’ll record the service from here as best we can and post it.
LEAF was founded in 2016 by seven Southern Illinois farmers, to support small sustainable farms. Our goals are two fold: to make ordering local food easier for busy customers; and to support small farmers by providing an online marketplace to sell their goods. Our group adheres to naturally grown and organic standards as a peer-to-peer regulated organization. We strive to…
Well, not really, but it made you click the link, so here we are.During these days of stress, shelter in place, and pandemic, you may have noted that we’re not all thinking as well as we have in the past. We’re forgetting what we went to get in the other room, sure, but pastors are…
In case you forgot what it looks like with the sun streaming in through the stained glass…
All, We’re tweaking some more things for Sunday morning, so here’s the word. Sunday School will begin at 9 am on Zoom. We’ll use breakout rooms to have multiple classes going at the same time. The youth have been meeting already on Google Meet, and this will replace that. This will restart our adult…
The last week of Christ’s life is busy. Each year we walk along with Christ through the last week of his life. We began by shouting Hosanna as Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. On Maundy Thursday we go to the upper room with Jesus and the disciples, to celebrate the Lord’s Supper. Worship is…