A huge thank you to Darlene Berryman, Pam Garrett, Mary Rentz, Sue and Art Kaufman, Joyce Brown, the Networking Committee and the Mission Board for organizing a very successful St. Patrick’s Day Sober Dance. The food was delicious and the band, License to Groove, was great! Everyone had a wonderful time. Our pantry at South Church continues to grow as more people […]
The Food Pantry was a busy place this week with 478 families coming. The guests have many stories. One family was robbed of almost everything and needed food to make it to their next paycheck. Another one’s husband was in the hospital and had no income. Most just don’t have enough cash or food stamps to buy food even though many […]
This Sunday the lectionary is Luke 16:1-13 which is a puzzle that Jesus offers us. Jesus says we should try and be like a dishonest steward who gets caught and then—before he’s fired—reduces the bills for all his master’s debtors. In this way he reasons once unemployed those same debtors will welcome him into their […]
Two Miss Hall’s students have been volunteering weekly at the Food Pantry since October. Mariah Lewis is from Williamstown and Helin Karakus is from Adana, Turkey — not far from Tarsus, the home town of the Apostle Paul. They are both sophomores and have been working closely with Sandie Smith at the Children’s Book Table as well as working […]
This Sunday we have the joy of sharing in the sacrament of Baptism. We will be baptizing Nowell Wesley, son of Genesis Wesley and Jonathan Villaneuva—one of our new families who have been coming in recent months. Nowell is 8. His big sister, Osheanna, is 10. I’m hoping she will help me with a part of the ceremony. […]