Greetings! September 30th is the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt day. The Presbyterian Church in Canada has produced a video (https://youtu.be/fSZO42EkcmI) in which “Vivian Ketchum, originating from Wauzhushk Onigum Nation of Northern Ontario, and a member of Place of Hope Presbyterian Church in Winnipeg, Manitoba, talks about why she wears an orange shirt, and why it is important for members of the church to mark September 30.” Th

Greetings! Today is the International Day of Prayer for Peace. This special day began during the ecumenical Decade to Overcome Violence. The idea was born in a meeting between the WCC general secretary and the UN secretary general in 2004. Each year on September 21st the World Council of Churches calls churches and parishes to observe the International Day of Prayer for Peace. September 21st is also the United Nations-sponsored International Day of Peace. Inspired by the c

Greetings! “God blessed the seventh day and called it sacred, because on it God rested from all the work of creation.” - Genesis 2:3 On Sunday we talked about the creation poem in Genesis 1:1 - 2:4a. In this poem, God is bringing order to the chaos. Other creation narratives from the same time period tell of the deity containing the chaos in stone and putting the temple on top. In Genesis, God brings order to chaos, but the capstone is not the temple. It is the sabbath re

Greetings! “O YHWH, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. Yonder is the sea, great and wide, creeping things innumerable are there, living things both small and great. ...The trees of YHWH are watered abundantly, the cedars of Lebanon that you planted.” - Psalm 104:24-25, 16 We have just finished a sermon series on Revelation. This book is full of visions of heaven and of God on the throne. These visions are m