Each spring the PW collects donations for CWS Tools and Blankets. This spring is special in that we cannot collect the donations in church and the need for these donations is even greater. The PW will be collecting donations from now until May 31. If you would like to make a donation, you have 2 options to choose [...]
Christian Education MAY 2020 We miss you! Please stay well. SUNDAY SCHOOL K-3 and 4-5 GRADE CLASSES Materials for Sunday School lessons and activities are sent home each week. For more information please contact [email protected] 6-7 GRADE CLASSES, 11:00am Sunday mornings on Zoom, classes are held by George Bollenbacher and Richard Ackerman. For Zoom meeting [...]
May 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 and June 7 - on Zoom The IPC Men’s Group will be teaching a virtual class "Christian Hope,” a six-session class from the PCUSA’s “Being Reformed” series. The class is open to anyone in the church and we welcome everyone who would like to participate. “In Christ, God [...]
Dear Church, Below is link to today's worship audio. Jon and I hope you are blessed in the listening. We think of you as we prepare and pray that you will be comforted, encouraged, and challenged to respond to these fearful circumstances in ways that are life-giving for you and all our world. Our faith [...]
Dear Church, As we shelter in place, together apart, absent from the sanctuary, consider the wisdom of Pierre Teihard de Chardin, a twentieth-century Jesuit philosopher, who prayed: "Since once again, Lord, I have neither bread nor wine nor altar, I will raise myself beyond these symbols, up to the pure majesty of the real itself; [...]
Dear Church, Below is the link to a Good Friday audio from Jon and me. You know what? Making these audios brings your faces to my mind. I see you one by one as I’m recording and that ends up feeling more emotionally intimate than standing in a pulpit with you scattered out in pews. Isn’t that weird? I [...]
From Interim Pastor Jane Ann: Dear Church, Below is a link to a simple Maundy Thursday offering for you from Jon, Nancy, and me to listen to this evening before you eat dinner, if you choose. Together apart we share an Agape Meal, remembering Jesus’ last supper. Thank you who tell us that our efforts are helpful [...]
Dear Church, Attached is the link for the audio from Jon Riss and me for Palm Sunday. I miss you and love to talk on the phone. Please reach out if you want to visit or pray. Stay connected to one another. Love to you, Interim Pastor Jane Ann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM-CASE2ZB0&feature=youtu.be or https://youtu.be/zM-CASE2ZB0 Interim Pastor Jane [...]
Dear Church, Below are 2 links, both of the same audio that Jon and I prepared for Lent 5, March 29, 2020. Correction: Gospel reading is John 11: 1-45. I mistakenly said 41 in the audio. May you be blessed this Sunday with a sense of Sabbath. Be at peace. Love to all, Interim [...]
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