Author Archives: Nancy

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  Lenten 40 Challenge

  Posted on January 26, 2017 by Nancy in Community, Health and Wellness, Spire link

  Mindfulness provides a simple but powerful route for getting ourselves unstuck, back into touch with our own wisdom and vitality. —Jon Kabat-Zinn We invite you to adopt a health-promoting habit for forty days. You determine the personal lifestyle practice—mind, body or spirit—which fosters greater wellness. Commitment and passion rather than the size of the change […]

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  Upcoming Youth Events: Winter/Spring 2017

  Posted on December 29, 2016 by Nancy in Latest News, Spire link, Youth

  High School Mission Trip (9th-12th grades) Tuskegee, Alabama February 19 – February 25 SIGN UP HERE! This year we will be heading to Alabama to with with Alabama Rural Ministry.  While there, the youth will be helping to fix houses for veterans and the elderly who are on a fixed income and can not afford to make […]

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  Bible Study—Four Sundays in January

  Posted on December 28, 2016 by Nancy in Community, Latest News, Spire link, Worship

  January 8, January 15, January 22, and January 29 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM, Henry Room “Epiphany: the season of the weird. It starts on January 6, twelve days after Christmas, when the Magi, three foreign kings or astronomers or both, arrive at Jesus’ cradle bearing an odd assortment of gifts: gold for a king, […]

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  More Light

  Posted on December 28, 2016 by Nancy in Community, Latest News, Spire link

  The twelve days of Christmas end on January 6. This marks the beginning of the season of Epiphany in the Christian calendar. Epiphany means “manifestation, disclosure, or revelation.” As the light continues its slow grow with each passing day for those of us in the northern hemisphere, we are invited to reflect upon ways that […]

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  Leadership Team December Update

  Posted on December 28, 2016 by Nancy in Community, Latest News, Spire link

  As we completed our headlong rush through Advent, the Leadership Team pondered this question at our December meeting: What would Jesus think of our celebration of Christmas today? We shared thoughts on how we each preserve meaning in the season personally, as well as how our joint worship can reflect the joy of Christ’s arrival. […]

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  From Despair to Hope

  Posted on December 28, 2016 by Nancy in Community, Latest News, Spire link

  January 20, 7:30 PM (room TBD) Come hear Alexander Guibault present his life story about growing up as an orphan on the streets of Guatemala City and how he maintained hope that someday he would find a family. Alex’s story is one of despair and hope, and is an inspiration to all who hear it. […]

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  Fisk Organ and Ripley Chapel Project Update

  Posted on December 28, 2016 by Nancy in Latest News, Spire link, Worship

  The Music & Worship Arts initiative has had a busy fall. Your Working Group has been making progress on the goals of restoring and maintaining our Fisk Organ and remaking Ripley Chapel into a flexible, but still sacred place for a wide variety of activities. On December 18th, after Worship, a Hearing was held to […]

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  Purpose Forum Dinner

  Posted on December 28, 2016 by Nancy in Community, Latest News, Spire link

  January 25, 2017 What is the Purpose Forum again? One way to think of it is as an intersection between the Leadership Team and the congregation for discussion and presentation. The Leadership Team is requesting a Forum in January to promote understanding and communication between ministries as we approach the halfway point in our program […]

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  Preparing for Myanmar

  Posted on December 28, 2016 by Nancy in Community, Outreach, Spire link

  Leave the familiar for a while. Let your senses and bodies stretch out Like a welcomed season Onto the meadows and shores and hills. Open up to the Roof. Make a new water-mark on your excitement And love. Change rooms in your mind for a day. All the hemispheres in existence lie beside an equator […]

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