Julie Lane will be holding additional website training sessions for spirit team members on Sunday, February 16th and Sunday, February 23rd directly after church. Please contact Julie if you would like to participate. Please call her cell: 617-1296 or email her: hookedonjaneausten@yahoo.com.
‘Beneath the Blindfold’ reminds us of the immorality and illegality of torture, even when disguised as ‘enhanced interrogation.’ This essential documentary shakes our complacency and determines us to insist on actual, effective abolition of torture in our time. — Juan E. Méndez, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment… Read more Behind the Blindfold – Tuesday, Feb. 11th, 6:00 p.m.
Julie Lane will be holding additional website training sessions for spirit team members on Sunday, February 16th and Sunday, February 23rd directly after church. Please contact Julie if you would like to participate. Please call her cell: 617-1296 or email her: hookedonjaneausten@yahoo.com.
Attention all Seekers, in the absence of our fearless leader, Rev. David, we will NOT undertake chapters 17-20 of the Spong book on Sunday, February 2. We will wait until David and Sally return and resume the study of the Gospel according to John on Sunday, February 9. Muffin Overstreet
Last Sunday, my sermon focused on 8th day people. The eighth day is understood as the 1st day of God’s new creation. The lectionary reading told of Jesus’ baptism. In some traditions the baptismal fount has eight sides. The symbolism of eight sides is meant to convey the idea that when we come up out… Read more FROM OUR INTERIM PASTOR ~ EIGHTH DAY PEOPLE
The Team met last Wednesday (January 8) to continue discussions of the candidates being considered for the position of Senior Minister. We voted unanimously on a top candidate with whom to continue conversations. In contacting her, we learned she and her family will be in the Wichita area this week (January 14-20), and the Search… Read more MINISTERIAL SEARCH TEAM UPDATE
Thanks to Carmen Bell we have a list of current issues before the state and federal legislatures. If you enter www.legislature.org, or type Kansas legislature into your search engine you will find information that will help you learn about issues of interest to you and ways to contact your legislator. Two of the issues we… Read more LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
Thanks to all who came to Sunday’s conversation on Nonviolence. I feel we had a great conversation and I thoroughly enjoy the opportunity for the intergenerational discussions that are able to be held within the safety of our church family. (Especially when we don’t see eye to eye.) Please remember to think of the two hands… Read more NONVIOLENCE DISCUSSION / ACTION OPPORTUNITY
January 19, 2014 Pine Valley Christian Church Matthew 5:1-12 Rev. David Hansen Jesus begins his ministry by telling us that the kingdom of God is at hand. It is upon us and among us and all around us. We are in the midst of the kingdom. God is not far away, but close at hand.… Read more We Live in Two Realms
We have launched our study of the Gospel of John, using John Shelby Spong’s The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic as our guide. If you were not able to attend the first session, or do not have a copy of Bishop Spong’s book, do not fear, there is a place at the table… Read more FROM OUR INTERIM PASTOR