A Message from Pastor Tom
My Dear Friends,
This past year has been a challenge for all of us. When it all started, I expected that we would shelter in place for a short time, a few weeks, maybe a month, but I never imagined it would be more than a year. As the weeks and months passed, fear and darkness slowly crept into our lives; I started getting calls from friends in our community who were seriously depressed, some needed immediate treatment. Others were hanging on by a thread and some gave up their recovery as a way of coping with the darkness and isolation.
The dis-ease from the pandemic, isolation, loss of lives and life as we knew it, political unrest, social unrest, and the on-going uncertainty of when, if ever, the unrest will rest, makes this Holy Week something that I desperately need.
I need to know that God knows us and has felt all the grief, loss, fear, and uncertainty that we are feeling now. I need to believe that in this time of uncertainty, there is something certain I can hold on to. I need to have faith in the sure and certain hope that God loves us, and God is with us…All of us!
Now, may you believe that as we journey through this Holy Week, we do not walk alone – may you join us as we walk to the foot of the cross, and may you share in the joy of Easter morning – when we all can say, “He is risen, He is risen indeed! Alleluia, Alleluia.”
More good news! Please join us for IN PERSON WORSHIP starting on April 14th at 7:00pm. And, yes, we will still be on Zoom and Facebook Live if you cannot join us in person.
Love,
Pastor Tom
