Jul 25
2024
Pastor's Note
Following last week’s Family Gathering, I wanted to take this space to highlight a few areas where participation from the church is desired in the days ahead.
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Pastor's Note
Earlier this week Karla sent out a substantive email with information on three important pieces - a Personal Ministry Survey, a draft for a revised CBC Constitution and Bylaws, and a prototype/draft of our new CBC Discipleship Pathway. We'll be talking more about each of those over the next weeks and months. For now, I just wanted to touch on the Personal Ministry Survey.
Keep ReadingElder Update from February
The elders met February 19. One of the first items on our agenda is prayer for our church and the individuals within our church. Many think of these as “joys and concerns.” There are always physical and spiritual needs (“concerns,” though it is a privilege to pray and care for one another and is joyful in a special way). But there are always many things that we would classify as “joys.”
Keep ReadingPastor's Note
This Sunday, we will be on question 20 in our catechism time on Sunday mornings. Thus far, the catechism questions have been establishing God's holiness, our sin, and the need for a Savior. The upcoming questions will revolve around the nature of redemption and our Redeemer. I've enjoyed these catechism times so far (especially this last Sunday), and I hope they've been fruitful.
Keep ReadingPastor's Note
I thoroughly enjoyed our Heritage Night last Friday evening, and am very grateful for those who worked hard to make it happen. That team is now asking the question - should we do it again? I would love to know what the rest of the church thinks. Should we host another "Heritage Night" next year, or sometime in the future? Should we make it an annual thing?
Keep ReadingPastor's Note
Now that we're into the second month of the year, it may be a good time for me to ask how your practice of spiritual disciplines is going. I think we all know the value and necessity of spiritual disciplines — the regular engagement in prayer, Scripture reading, singing, and corporate worship, to name a few — if we are to follow the Lord.
Keep ReadingElder Update from January
The elders met on January 22. We followed our normal pattern which includes discussion and prayer for the needs of our church family and our church before moving to other matters.
Keep ReadingJul 18
2024
Pastor's Note
I regret I wasn’t able to be present last Sunday – just any Sunday I am gone, but especially following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Like many of you I continue to pray for our leaders; so I pray for him, I pray for our current president, and I pray for peaceful times.
Jul 11
2024
Pastor's Note
First, to whomever anonymously left me the lawn chair in the office – thank you! Gave me a great laugh, and a nice new lawn chair! Second, at last week’s prayer service we sang together and focused on the names and titles of Jesus given to us in Scripture. I was greatly encouraged by it, and wanted to pass along a few to you.
Jul 4
2024
Pastor's Note
Summer schedules are always a bit wonky. People go on vacation, people move, people visit. And, the normal course of ministries is generally altered or halted, so we lose some normal rhythms. In the midst of that, we often have summer events and take on planning meetings for the year ahead. Because of all this, it is easy for communication to be missed.