by cbaker | Feb 6, 2024 | Pastor's Pondering, Updates
With skillful and loving hands, the new instrument is being installed. This is a work of many years of planning, prayer, giving and construction. The organ will provide us with music to inspire, to call us to prayer, to lift our spirits and to connect us with the...
by cbaker | Jan 31, 2024 | Newsletters
February Messenger 2024
by cbaker | Jan 30, 2024 | Pastor's Pondering
A few times I have written about the disaffiliation that has been taking place in the United Methodist Church. That’s a fancy word for a congregation that has decided to separate from the denomination according to a particular window that was available over the last 4...
by cbaker | Jan 23, 2024 | Pastor's Pondering
Each year, every United Methodist congregation is asked to complete a statistical report. The report includes financial numbers, such as income and the amount spent on the program, staffing, and operating costs for the year. The report also includes statistics...
by cbaker | Jan 16, 2024 | Pastor's Pondering
While watching the snow come down yesterday, I reread King’s famous Letter from Birmingham Jail. It can be found at click here. Written in 1963 on scraps of paper smuggled out from a jail cell, the letter is a stirring account of what King was intending to accomplish...
