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The Trinity Building

Last week we had 20 children running around the sanctuary, child actors in the basement, older people improving their balance, several groups supporting each other as they deal with addictions of various kinds, dancers expressing their nordic heritage, a Vietnamese...

Everybody needs a system

How do you store your clothes?  Do you have a designated drawer for different categories of clothes such as a specific drawer for socks and another for t-shirts or do you jut put the clean clothes in the drawer with space each time you do laundry?  Whichever way you...

The Joy of Grief

This  week I am grieving. This morning I officiated at the funeral of a family friend. I spent the afternoon discussing grief as part of our clergy study group’s reading of See No Stranger. And my heart is full with the images and  news out of Gaza & Israel. I’m...

Loving the past and excited for the future.

This week I got to have coffee with a retired colleague. It was so fun talking about all the people we had worked with and learned from throughout the years. Names of people who mentored me as a child, who I sat with at annual conference, who I remember from district...

See No Stranger

As part of our work as clergy in our area we are reading the amazing book See No Stranger: a Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valerie Kaur.  Twice a month I will be gathering with a small group of other area United Methodist Pastors to explore and discuss the book...