by cbaker | Apr 12, 2023 | Pastor's Pondering
Give the Gift of Life on Wednesday, May 10th. Calvary UMC is hosting our annual Spring Blood Drive for the American Red Cross on Wednesday, May 10th from 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the church’s Fellowship Hall. Just a little over 15 years ago, Eric Anderson took...
by cbaker | Apr 4, 2023 | Pastor's Pondering
We are now in Holy Week, that period of seven days that begins with Palm/Passion Sunday and ends with the break of day on Easter Sunday. This is a time in which we recall the last days of Jesus life and we are incorporated once again into the central mystery of...
by cbaker | Mar 28, 2023 | Pastor's Pondering
Last fall, I asked members of the Church Council to participate in a very unscientific survey. I provided a long list of values. Then I asked these people which values on the list best describe how they experience this congregation and which do not. I received eleven...
by cbaker | Mar 21, 2023 | Pastor's Pondering
For many years, Calvary Church has sent groups to various places on mission and service projects. Groups have gone to do repair work after hurricanes and floods and done work to build or repair homes, schools, and retreat centers. Some of these projects have been here...
by cbaker | Mar 14, 2023 | Pastor's Pondering
I heard an interview on a podcast this morning. Tom Long was being asked about a book he wrote about Christian funerals. It got me thinking about what makes a good funeral. Here are a few of my thoughts. A good funeral needs to lift the life of the person who...
by cbaker | Mar 7, 2023 | Pastor's Pondering
One of the practices that Calvary Church followed for many years was a time for blessing those who had a birthday. At the end of the closing hymn on the final Sunday of the month, those who had a birthday sometime that month were invited to come forward to the front...
