Worship This Week

Please join us

in the Sanctuary

or online at 10am for

Confirmation Sunday

Coffee hour will be held

after the service.

The service will be live streamed

on Facebook Live here

or on 3CX here

Reader: Joey Siwacki & Julian Malcolm

Coffee Hour Hosts: Jane DeRosa

Celebrating with our Confirmands

This Sunday we will celebrated the Confirmation of Julian Malcolm and Joey Siwacki. Julian and Joey have been studying through this year with weekly classes on what it means to be a follower of Jesus - looking each week at another line of the UCC Statement of Faith.

Accompanying them on this journey have been Marion Lake, Joann Klawitter, and Rev Paige Besse-Rankin.

With their Confirmation, Joe and Julian become adult members of the church.

Julian is completing 11th grade at Pinkerton Academy. He enjoys history, travel and audio visual tech work. He is a volunteer at the Historical Society and has served as part of the Worship Technology Team for our worship services.

Joey is completing 9th grade at Pinkerton Academy. He has been cooking since he was 7 years old and enjoys it. This is also his sixth year of snow boarding. He enjoys playing basketball, hiking hanging out with friends, driving, reading, and sleeping! He has volunteered for many church fundraisers and also served on our worship technology team.

Congratulations for Joe and Julian! It is a blessing to have them as part of our church family and it is a joy to celebrate this important moment on their faith journeys.

Rev Paige's Corner: Prophetic Imagination

Last week, we lost a Biblical Scholar who has had a large impact on our generation: Walter Bruggemann. Walter Bruggemann was a scholar of the Hebrew Scriptures and particularly of the prophets. He was a member of the United Church of Christ, a professor at Eden Seminary and Colombia University, and a prolific author. I have been blessed to hear him preach and lecture over the years. His passion for scripture and his dedication to faith inspired. In recent years, he has publshed books of prayers that reflect a gift for the poetic. I commend them.

Some Bruggemann Quotes to inspire:

"The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true."

"Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms."

"God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history."

I am saddened by the news of Walter Bruggemann's death but also thankful for the gift he has offered us not only with his scholarship but also with his faithfulness to the church.

With blessings!

Rev Paige Besse-Rankin