Preparing for Worship - Jenna Sullivan.   Today is the first of several Sundays this summer that we gather as one church family to worship together. These pews will hold our families, hopes, fears and dreams as we lean in to the tie that binds. We will hopefully...

Preparing For Worship - Jenna Sullivan, pastoral resident Drawing inspiration from French painter Jean-François Millet, Vincent van Gogh began to paint dozens of renderings of a sower, one of which is shown on the cover of our worship folder. He greatly admired...

Preparing For Worship - Jenna Sullivan, pastoral resident. Today we light the candle of peace. In my more honest moments, I wonder how a small flickering candle could really change a thing. The world is aching still. And the rush toward strings of twinkling lights and...

Preparing for Worship - Jenna Sullivan, pastoral resident.   I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart! (Psalm 111).  Our psalm today speaks of wholehearted gratitude. In our staff meeting this week we practiced gratitude as Heather Mustain asked us to...

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 - Jenna Sullivan, pastoral resident.  What wondrous love is this that caused the Lord of bliss to bear the dreadful curse for my soul? This rhetorical question grounds us in our season of Lent. We ask ourselves again and again, what love is this?...

Preparing for Worship - Jenna Sullivan, pastoral resident.  O LORD, you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away...Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. The opening words of Psalm 139 take my...