Archive for January 2013
March 17th Seeker’s Class Assignment and Background
March 17 Readings Read Mark 14:1-16:8 Myers, Chapters 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, pages 181-212 Background: Women play a particularly significant role throughout Mark’s gospel and especially so in these last chapters. Most biblical scholars agree that the original manuscript ends with 16:8, or perhaps there were multiple versions of the ending…
Read MoreThree months together
This week marks my three month anniversary with PVCC. I started on Oct. 14th, although I did not lead worship until November. I thought that one way to mark our journey is with these words taken from a prayer for the church written by Reinhold Niebuhr, “O God, grant us grace fitly to be joined…
Read MorePublic Event: Learning about the School of the Americas, Jan 25th at PVCC
PVCC will host an evening with the Wichita Peace and Justice Center on Friday, January 25, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. We learn about the Peace and Justice Center trip last November to Fort Benning, Georgia, to protest the School of the Americans (SOA). The information and links below will introduce you to SOA. It is…
Read MoreGreat Activities
I want to invite you to two events this Saturday, January 12. The first is the Annual Meeting of Interfaith Worker Justice Kansas, which is an organization that I am affiliated with. We will meet in Dugan Convention Center on the campus of Newman University. The meeting will begin with a welcome and gathering at…
Read MoreMessage From the Pastor
I am watching the snow blanket the earth with much needed moisture as I write this on Monday afternoon. As I watch the big flakes fall gently, I am thinking of Wendell Berry’s poem “What We Need is Here”. Celebrating and honoring a Creation-centered spirituality is a fine way to welcome the New Year. Promising to…
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