Letter from the Pastor – May 2024
Dear Church, I hope this email finds you all well. As you may know, we are now just a few weeks away from our All-Church visioning retreat. On Saturday, May […]
Category: Letters from the Pastor
Letter from the Pastor – April 2024
Dear Church, A few weeks ago, myself and some other members of Central Woodward attended the November 13th Troy City Council meeting. We were there to support our neighbors at […]
Letter from the Pastor – March 2024
Dear Church, During Lent of 2021 I served a church in Illinois that brought out a big, wooden cross every Easter. So, after the Palm Sunday service that year the […]
Letter from the Pastor – February 2024
Dear Church, The season of Lent of begins this month. This year Ash Wednesday is on February 14th. To mark that occasion Central Woodward will be hosting a joint Bible […]
Missional Dispatch – April 2021
Before I began writing this column, I read my Dispatch for April 2020. When I wrote it we were living under a three-week stay-at-home order. We knew that we wouldn’t […]
Missional Dispatch for November 2020
The month of November begins on All Saints Day. We will have turned our clocks back, giving us an extra hour of sleep, so we should be bright and chipper […]
Pastoral Letter on the Coronavirus and the Church
Our life together as a congregation has been disrupted by a virus. Daily life has been interrupted. It’s quite likely we’re feeling anxious and even afraid. It’s times like this […]
Missional Dispatch – August 2019
Summer is moving past us quickly. Soon Autumn will be upon us, and when this occurs, we will have entered our season of sabbatical. Preparations for this three-month period are […]
Missional Dispatch for February 2019
As we begin the month of February, not only has winter arrived, but we continue our journey through the season of Epiphany hearing the call to let the presence of […]
Dispatch – December 2018
With the early November snowfall, it might seem that winter came early. We simply skipped from summer to winter. Now it’s December, when winter is due to arrive (though not […]