by cbaker | Mar 12, 2024 | Pastor's Pondering
During this season of Lent, I have been using the book Freeing Jesus, by Diana Butler Bass as a starting point with my Sunday messages. In the book, she lays out seven different ways of experiencing Jesus. We’ve looked at Jesus as a friend, teacher, savior, and...
by cbaker | Mar 5, 2024 | Pastor's Pondering
The Staff Parish Relations Committee wishes to announce that the church seeks someone to serve as Financial Secretary. The Financial Secretary is responsible for handling, recording, and reporting financial contributions and other sources of income received by the...
by cbaker | Feb 27, 2024 | Pastor's Pondering
Blessings in a Backpack (BIAB) Frederick County provides bags of nonperishable food to elementary school-aged children. These bags help feed children who qualify for free and reduced meals (FARM) at school. Without this program, many of these children would not have...
by cbaker | Feb 13, 2024 | Pastor's Pondering
This year, the Valentine’s Day holiday falls on the same day as Ash Wednesday. That means we will begin the season of Lent with calls to repentance of spiritual discipline on the same day we celebrate romance and love. Not much is known about the real history of the...
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 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...
