Property Clean-up Day

Our Men’s group is sponsoring a Property Clean-Up for Thursday, October 19th, starting at 8 am and going until they tire out! If you’d like to help out, (you don’t need any special skills or even be a guy!), come and join us! Contact John Durbin or Pastor Paul for more details.Bring rakes, shovels, gloves,… Continue reading Property Clean-up Day

Fun, silliness, and strategy this Saturday!

What is a Service Auction? Our Service Auction will have silent and live bidding components. People have donated items which range from a timeshare to artwork to a t-shirt and everything in between! Skills have been donated from dinner to transportation to sewing projects and everything in between! Some of the donations will be part of… Continue reading Fun, silliness, and strategy this Saturday!

The hard thing when you get old

Our overarching church theme this year has been “What makes you come alive? Go and do it! Because the world needs people who are alive.” That is taken from a Howard Thurman quote. It has served us well as we journeyed in ministry in 2023. The Progressive Art Installation where a tree and meadow emerged… Continue reading The hard thing when you get old

How we fully express our unity

Each year, Christians around the world mark the first Sunday in October by coming together for communion. This year, World Communion Sunday falls on October 1st. And, as described in Luke 13:29, “The people will come from east and west, from north and south, and will eat in the kingdom of God.” As members of… Continue reading How we fully express our unity

Doing Grief™ Community Healing Project: Fall Schedule

We all suffer loss from birth to death: illness, injury, death, aging, broken relationships and more; so, grieving is a life skill to learn and healing is the journey of a lifetime. That’s why Healing Project programs are for everyone – whether you are actively grieving a loss or not. Come and experience healing through… Continue reading Doing Grief™ Community Healing Project: Fall Schedule

Information Session: October 25

Interested in joining our congregation? We’re having an information session on Wednesday, October 25 at 3:30 pm. We’ll give you a tour of the church and a light supper, and you’ll visit with Pastor Paul and Pastor Jim, and meet some active church members, as well. There’ll be a Q&A time and a photo session,… Continue reading Information Session: October 25

Service Auction & Potluck

Mark your calendar for October 14th from 3 to 5 pm in King Hall for the Homeless Jesus Statue and Homeless Ministry Fundraising Potluck and Service Auction. Please consider donating something for the auction (time, talent, treasure): * It could be the gift of TIME: taking someone shopping, pet sitting, transportation to a doctor’s appointment,… Continue reading Service Auction & Potluck

It’s planting season once again.

I relate much of my life to gardening. Summer is a sabbatical, a take-a-break, a time-to-rest season. Autumn is a new beginning because it’s planting season once again. How blessed we are that planting season happens multiple times in the Sonoran Desert! The essence of being rooted, perhaps, is in knowing that who you are… Continue reading It’s planting season once again.

SAVE A LIFE!

Learn or Review Life Saving Techniques The Worship Team initiated the purchase of an Automated External Defibrillator (ADE) to be placed in the hallway between King Hall and the Sanctuary. In the event that an individual at our church would experience a cardiac event requiring resuscitation, this ADE unit is very user friendly, easy to… Continue reading SAVE A LIFE!