October 2, 2007 – 9:54 am
Lots of Church
We attended church services four times a week - on Wednesday night, Saturday night, and twice on Sundays. If we had a revival, it wasn’t uncommon for them to last up to four weeks or longer, which meant that we went to church every night and twice on Sundays.
At our annual Thanksgiving meeting, [...]
September 3, 2007 – 12:55 pm
I’ve been attending a UCC church for almost a year and a half, but am still amazed that I was able to find such a loving and accepting church within a reasonable driving distance of my home.
I had been away from church for several years, not interested in worshiping in any of the rather conservative [...]
August 28, 2007 – 11:40 am
This is the chapel in our church. We recently decided to add a history page to the church’s website, so Karen gave me a book that was printed in 1974 with the entire history of our church along with many black and white photos. I saw a b/w that looked almost identical to this, so [...]
August 16, 2007 – 10:13 am
Our church is having a celebration of sorts the last Sunday of this month. We are calling it “I Love My Church Sunday” and we’ll be having a nontraditional service followed by karaoke, ice cream, and watermelon. Not very “churchy”, but that’s the whole point.
After deciding that we needed a special clipart for that service’s [...]
August 14, 2007 – 10:11 am
During dinner last Friday evening, Karen told the group about being approached by a lesbian couple who wished to hold a commitment ceremony at our church later this year. Knowing that she might meet some resistance from certain elders and feeling that all members should be treated equally regardless of sexual orientation, she informed the [...]
