Letter from the Pastor – November 2024
Dear Church, Last month I offered some reflections on the book Letters to the Church: Encouragement and Engagement for the 2020 Election by William Kincaid. Written four years ago, the […]
Dear Church, Last month I offered some reflections on the book Letters to the Church: Encouragement and Engagement for the 2020 Election by William Kincaid. Written four years ago, the […]
Hello Church, Last week I started re-reading the book Letters to the Church: Encouragement and Engagement for the 2020 Election by William Kincaid (a former seminary professor of mine). As […]
Dear Church, During a recent sermon, we talked about how we can best approach some of the big challenges in our lives, and I shared a quote from the book […]
Dear Church family, During the month of August, the lectionary -our guide through worship during the church year- takes us through the story of King David, and I will be […]
Dear Church, Currently, the Church Elders are reading the book, God, Improv, and the Art of Living by Maryann McKibben Dana. The book is about how a life of faith […]
Dear Church, Something I am grateful for this past month is the visioning retreat we held at the church last month, on May 11th. I thank all who were there […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]