Over the past 2 months there have been a number of conversations with the District Superintendent, the Personnel Team of HPCUMC, and the leadership of OTRCC, to identify the right…
The Servant Leadership Board, with the permission of the District Board of Church Location and Building, has set a Church Conference for September 16, 4:30p.m. The agenda for the Church Conference will…
The first week of August, Pastor Doug and I enjoyed a continuing education class at the University of British Columbia. While we were on the campus we visited the Museum…
The mission of the United Methodist Church is “to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.” Every local church in their own context is to be…
Psalm 136 is a Psalm of gratitude. An attitude of gratitude is life transforming, and moves us to proclaim with the Psalmist: “God’s steadfast love endures forever!” Consequently with a…
Nearly 150 people have attended Town Hall meetings in June and July to hear about the exciting report of the Building Committee. The group, chaired by Paul Lisi, has worked…
“The passing over the coming back is the greatest spiritual adventure of our time.” John S. Dunne A small, but mighty team left their Homeland to pass over to the…
In May of this year, the Council of Bishops voted on a recommendation from the Commission on the Way Forward re: United Methodism and human sexuality. The Council of Bishops…
Anger is a normal feeling. We all get angry at times. And everyone deals with anger a little differently. A simple definition is, “the strong human emotion that you feel when you think that someone (a person,…
One of my favorite songs when I was a child was “Peace like a River.” It was fun to sing the verses with the motions...”.I’ve got’: Peace like a river…