2014
Eucharist: Giving Thanks
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Last week we celebrated communion in this congregation, and I mean celebrate. Communion is often a fairly somber event, but last Sunday as people came forward they smiled. In fact, […]
Resting in God’s Stillness and Silence
Speaker: Vicki Pendleton
In stillness and silence, we are offered the possibility of withdrawing from the noises in our of lives. You know our cell phones, our IPads, our computers, the TV and […]
SheepGate
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Sheep Gate. I didn’t know about “sheep gate” until this week when I walked around the church property reading this gospel from John. (I was trying to find new insights […]
In The Aftermath
Speaker: Michelle Burkholder
In today’s scripture we find ourselves transported back once again to Easter Sunday as we hear about yet another experience of encounter with the resurrected Christ. This story, which has […]
Making the Path by Walking
Speaker: Boris Ozuna
Many years ago, when I was still living in Sincelejo, my home town, I was a part of a group of young adults who had started an Anabaptist bible study […]
Fear and Exhilaration
Christ is Risen! [Christ is Risen Indeed!] Alleluia! We have journeyed together throughout Lent this year as witnesses to encounters with God; encounters that happened through temptation, through blessings and […]
From Death To Breath
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
What fantastic stories and what remarkable foreshadowing of the excitement to come in two weeks. And it is a description of what we live with every day. Death and life. […]
Group Reflections from 12 Scripture Group
Speaker:
Keith Swartzendruber During the past 3 months we as a church have explored scripture more intentionally and creatively. In addition to our focus in worship, many have gathered in small […]
Drawing Water
Speaker: Michelle Burkholder
The encounters with God we are exploring this week happen around water. There are many references and stories about water in the scriptures – in fact doing a simple search […]
Encountering and Re-encountering God
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
During lent we are watching for encounters with God, in the biblical text and in our own lives. We are told Abram is 75 when he finally has an encounter […]