Dear friends, Here is the prayer for the Wednesday before the election, taken from the Book of Common Prayer. Grant, O God, that your holy and life-giving Spirit may so move every heart, especially the hearts of the people of this land, that barriers which divide us...
Dear friends, One week from today is election day. There is no such thing as an inconsequential election, but with a rising pandemic, an economy in shambles, and issues of racial equality at the forefront, this election seems particularly important. In my sermon...
Dear friends, Well, yesterday the weather was not our friend when it came to gathering for worship. Let’s hope it cooperates for this this Sunday. Here is the link to RSVP: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050F49ACA822A1FD0-church3 This Sunday is All...
Dear friends, Attached is the service sheet for tomorrow’s worship. Right now we are planning to be online and in-person in the Beech Grove at 10 a.m. We are hoping that the weather will allow us to be outside. If it is raining in the morning we will have to...
Dear friends, Life in the pandemic has brought liturgical innovations to in-person worship that were previously unimagined. There are the new accoutrements of worship — masks, sanitizers, and Eucharistic pincers (see picture below). And there are new practices...
Dear friends, It is a parent’s worst nightmare. Being forcibly separated from your children, not knowing where they are, if they are safe, if they are being cared for, if they are crying for you each night, if they are alive. I know if any of us were in that...
Dear friends, What a wonderful day we had yesterday at our first in-person worship service since March 15. It could not have been a more glorious day in the Beech Grove. It was so nice to see your masked faces, and to be able to put communion in your outstretched...
Dear friends, Attached is the bulletin for tomorrow morning’s service. I am excited that this service will be both online and in person, our first in-person Sunday morning gathering in seven months. Pentecost-20-Proper-24-20A-October-18Download For those of you...
