Well, as many of you know, the last couple months have been notable in my family for the milestones that have been celebrated. We have collected a Bachelor’s degree, two Master’s degrees, and a Marathon medal! I was also commissioned at Annual Conference as a Provisional Elder, a big step toward ordination in 2018! More than anything else I could say in…
Hello Parker UMC family! Just a brief update from Tapestry to let you know how things are going across town. Tapestry is still worshiping twice a month, on the 2nd and last Sundays of each month over at the Wildlife Experience. I am pleased with how the folks are beginning to weave together and feel the sense of community that we are…
February is here! Always a great month – The Super Bowl, Ash Wednesday, Lenten studies, My Birthday. So many great things. There is one thing this February, however, that is a little different – I am starting my last semester in seminary. Three more months of killing myself to get everything done for all of my classes while still getting everything done for…
By the time you are reading this, Advent will be over and Christmas will have come and gone. I sure hope that both were wonderful for you all! A few highlights since the last time I wrote to you – Tapestry’s Christmas Eve Service was held at Lincoln Meadows Senior Living Center. We feel privileged to be able to bring worship to…
4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 5 For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made…
Pat’s article A Covenant Prayer in the Wesleyan Tradition I am no longer my own, but thine. Put me to what thou wilt, rank me with whom thou wilt. Put me to doing, put me to suffering. Let me be employed by thee or laid aside for thee, exalted for thee or brought low for thee. Let me be full, let me…
Hello Everyone! Great things are going on at Tapestry as we move forward. But first let’s look back. We had a wonderful first worship service back at the end of August. Over 100 people were there to celebrate with us and worship God for the new things he is doing. Our District Superintendent, Melanie Rosa, was also there with us that day…
For many of you, you are reading this just before Tapestry has its initial worship service. For many, it is right afterward. Either way, we at Tapestry and you at Parker UMC should be celebrating the day of August 30 as the formal beginnings of worship of our new church plant. Praise be to God! For everyone involved in this new church plant, Tapestry…
Hello friends and family of Parker UMC! The Tapestry launch is moving along and we have had some great firsts since I saw most of you at the end of June. We have started “The Loom,” a Monday night gathering at the Caribou Coffee up on Lincoln (across the street from the Wildlife Experience). At “The Loom” we get together and just talk…
“I love to tell the story of unseen things above, of Jesus and His glory, of Jesus and His love. I love to tell the story because I know ‘tis true, it satisfies my longings as nothing else can do. I love to tell the story, more wonderful it seems than all the golden fancies of all our golden dreams. I love to tell the…
The Tapestry UMC Church project has officially begun! Our team of Founders had its first meeting on April 8 with all but two of our team members in attendance. We started to get to know each other a little bit (a process that will continue for time to come), had some great desserts, and we started to dream about how Tapestry UMC…
“For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than…
“Well, God is almighty, I guess. But I think he’s on vacation right now because of all the [stuff] that’s happening in the world, cause it wasn’t like this back when he was famous.” – 16-year-old Protestant from Texas In his book, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers, Christian Smith explores what he describes as “the de facto dominant…
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” – Proverbs 3:5-6 As I sit to write this article out, I am waiting to leave the church building to go give a presentation to the New Church Development Committee and to request funding for…
Jonah said to them, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you; for I know it is because of me that this storm has come upon you.” – Jonah 1:12 Remember the story of Jonah? The little boat on which Jonah was traveling was getting tossed around by the sea during a big storm.…