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Vaccination is key to containing Delta variant
Vaccination is key to containing Delta variant - by Linda Garner, parish nurse. COVID-19 hospitalizations are increasing almost daily, due in many cases to the Delta variant of COVID-19. Most new cases are in people who have not been vaccinated for COVID. Areas of the...
Preparing for Worship
Preparing for Worship - R. G. Huff. The year was 1954. The place was Knoxville, Tennessee’s Atlantic Mills Discount Store. I got separated from my mother. She was shopping for cloth. I was not interested, so I wandered off into an aisle more suited to four-year-olds —...
Realm is Coming
Give and connect easier with new modern platform. Wilshire’s current ACS and Access ACS databases will be converted to a new platform called Realm beginning July 19. The Realm platform will provide a modern feel for online giving and connection. Wilshire members and...
Preparing for Worship
Preparing for Worship - Jeff Brummel, associate minister of music. My major in college was music education, which qualifies me to teach K-12 music in public schools. Perhaps the most discussed topic in those densely filled years was nurture. To be honest, this...
Preparing for Worship
Preparing for Worship – Jenna Sullivan, Pastoral Resident I’m currently learning how to play the piano. Our beloved Jeff Brummel has taken up the task of teaching me. Jeff says he is in the musical teaching lineage of Johann Sebastian Bach. As someone with no prior...
Preparing for Worship
Preparing for Worship - Ashley Robinson, Pastoral Resident. This week I had the privilege of co-leading worship at Vacation Bible School with my partner in mischief and co-resident, Jenna Sullivan. Each day the worship was full of joy, song, dance moves and the daily...