Season of Pentecost “A vote is a kind of prayer about the kind of world you want to live in.” – Rev. Raphael Warnock By the time you get this edition of the Communicator, the election will be over. Let’s pray for peaceful acceptance of whatever the result is. From the PVCC newsletter archives, this week in… Read more Moderator’s Corner 11/6/2022
10-30-2022 Season of Pentecost “A vote is a kind of prayer about the kind of world you want to live in.” – Rev. Raphael Warnock The election will be over soon. Let’s pray for peaceful acceptance of whatever the results are. From the PVCC newsletter archives, this week in 1977: …A new era begins for the 35… Read more Moderator’s Corner
“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s… Read more Moderator’s Corner, 10-30-2022
Season of Pentecost “Ours is not a God of self-improvement plans and 10 steps. Ours is a God of death and resurrection, and that God can take anything and bring it to life.” – Rachel Held Evans From the PVCC newsletter archives, this week in 1976: Mission Council voted unanimously and enthusiastically to support a… Read more Moderator’s Corner 10-23-2022
Season of Pentecost “In the cold wind, if you can lean against others, none of you will blow away. You keep each other from falling or help each other get back up. Someone holds out a hand, or even scared old you may hold out a hand and a person in need reaches for it… Read more Moderator’s Corner 10-16-2022
SEASON OF PENTECOST “At the end of this day, the world will either be a more or less kind, compassionate, and loving place because of your presence. Your move.” – John Pavlovitz Just one more reminder that change begins within each of us. Our changes may cause others to see something different in themselves. We… Read more Moderator’s Corner 10-9-2022
Season of Pentecost “At the end of this day, the world will either be a more or less kind, compassionate, and loving place because of your presence. Your move.” – John Pavlovitz Just one more reminder that change begins within each of us. Our changes may cause others to see something different in themselves. We… Read more Moderator’s Corner 10/9/2022
Season of Pentecost “Apparently, thousands of parents had been warned that their children would be exposed to dangerous ideas from scandalous women if we weren’t uninvited. Of course, if no one had ever been exposed to dangerous ideas from scandalous women, Christianity itself would not have had its unique nor its glorious history, but whatever.”… Read more Moderator’s Corner 10/2/2022
Season of Pentecost “When my faith had become little more than an abstraction, a set of propositions to be affirmed or denied, the tangible, tactile nature of the sacraments invited me to touch, smell, taste, hear, and see God in the stuff of everyday life again. They got God out of my head and into… Read more Moderator’s Corner 9/18/2022
Season of Pentecost “The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.” – Anne Lamott Thanks for attending our Special Congregational Meeting this past Sunday. We passed a motion to adopt the proposed minor changes to the Constitution. Our next Congregational Meeting is October 2. If… Read more Moderator’s Corner 9/18/2022