Monthly Newsletters - Parish Happenings
Take a look at what's happening at Lower Valley.
- Nov 2023 -
As my sixteenth fall serving as pastor at Lower Valley slips past us I’ve been thinking of all the
different approaches we’ve taken to our annual "stewardship season".
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- Sep 2023 -
The Church and its Mission: I’ve written, preached, and talked about our mission quite often,
over the last 15 years, and as we head into another fall together it seemed a good time to continue
thinking about these matters.
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- May 2023 -
Resurrection Every Day: It is easy to feel as if Easter has come and gone... and been gone for a while.
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- February 2023 -
Discernment has been on my mind for the past couple months.
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- January 2023 -
The calendar marches on and we have turned the last page of 2022.
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- December 2022 -
150 Years of Expectation and Action:
This year our scripture reading for the first Sunday of Advent was from Isaiah, but there was also a reading from the end of Matthew’s
gospel (24:36-44).
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- November 2022 -
Change Comes: If you’ve made it to worship in the past few weeks you are
aware that my parents have been out from California.
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- September 2022 -
Remedy for Unstable Times: Somehow the approaching fall feels a little different in 2022.
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- June 2022 -
Again We Cry Out in Lament ... Four years ago (March 2018) in this same newsletter I shared a lament and wrote about lament.
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- March 2022 -
Lent: Last week I learned that the Rev. Jay Bartow, a former colleague in ministry, had died at the age of 76, quite unfairly, of a rare type of pulmonary fibrosis.
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- February 2022 -
Truing The Wheel of Our Lives: I want to be clear that as I write about emerging from this nearly 2 years long pandemic I do so with cautious optimism.
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- January 2022 -
Shalom: As we begin 2022 it certainly feels like the movie Groundhog Day.
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- September 2021 -
Getting Back to Normal? I’d like to be writing a newsletter about how we are getting back
to normal, but I think I may have tried that last year.
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- June 2021 -
I believe that God takes an interest in our lives: our suffering, our pain, our joys, our
shortcomings, and our faithfulness.
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- May 2021 -
We’re Getting the Band Back Together: Last Sunday we returned to worship in our sanctuary for
the first time in thirteen months.
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- March 2021 -
It all got started with a shortage of toilet paper. Remember when, “what are we gonna do we’re
down to our last roll?” was part of our pandemic worry list.
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- February 2021 -
As we spend February close to home, socially distanced, and buried in snow, it seems hard to
imagine the days are lengthening, but for those of us paying attention to the church year we are
reminded by Ash Wednesday and the season of Lent, if not the ever extending hours of daylight,
that Spring is on the way.
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- January 2021 -
It would only be natural to say goodbye to 2020 with a retrospective on
what a difficult year it has been.
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