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Let’s sing!

Wouldn’t it be fun to hear some choral music?Wouldn’t it be more fun to sing some choral music? Well, starting on Sunday, August 1, at 9:00 a.m. (in the music room), you are invited to join the “Ah” gust“Ah” nsembleatThe P “ah” lms We’ll prepare some fun tunes that we will sing in the services… Continue reading Let’s sing!

“Abby Normal”

I’ve seen the future and it’s going to be “Abby Normal.” That line comes from the comedy movie, “Young Frankenstein.” In that movie, Igor (pronounced Eye-Gore), is instructed to get a brain from the laboratory that comes from a famous intellect. Instead, having dropped the correct brain, he grabs the next one available which is… Continue reading “Abby Normal”

Learning the art of listening is much harder than…

Harry Emerson Fosdick once told the story of a woman who was left a widow fairly young in life. Having to earn a living, she put an ad in the paper saying that for $2.50 an hour she would listen to anybody talk about anything. Her idea was such a success that within two years… Continue reading Learning the art of listening is much harder than…

“Don’t worry, Dad. God’s not dead, God is alive.”

When my kids were little, we used to do those long car trips across the country each summer. My parents made me suffer through them and it was my right and duty to make my children suffer likewise! One trip found us in Yellowstone. It was the 1990s and my boys were eight and six years… Continue reading “Don’t worry, Dad. God’s not dead, God is alive.”

From the Prison Ministry/Criminal Justice Reform Action Team

By Nancy Nonini, Social Justice Action Team-Criminal Justice Did you know? According to the Death Penalty Information Center: Arizona reportedly has “refurbished” its gas chamber and has spent more than $2,000 to acquire ingredients to execute prisoners with cyanide gas, the same gas used by the Nazis to murder more than one million men, women,… Continue reading From the Prison Ministry/Criminal Justice Reform Action Team

Help HART Pantry fill Backpacks for Teens in Need

HART Pantry is holding a Back-to-School Drive for At-Risk Teens. Needed items include: Adult size backpacks 3 ring binders Filler paper (college rule) Subject dividers One-subject spiral notebook (college rule) 2-pocket folders Composition books Calculators Erasers (Dollar Tree has multiple packs) Highlighters Pencils/Mechanical Pencils Glue sticks Pencil Case (cloth mesh) Dollar Tree Pens Earbuds, Dollar… Continue reading Help HART Pantry fill Backpacks for Teens in Need

Perryville Women Appreciate Clothing Donations

A big THANK YOU to all who have donated clothing to help women exiting Perryville Prison reenter society. Here’s a little peek from beyond your donations: While waiting their turns to leave, the women select their outfits and love to model them for each other and make comments. “You look beautiful.” “That color is just… Continue reading Perryville Women Appreciate Clothing Donations

The Palms Receives $5K Hybrid Church Grant

By John Durbin, Moderator A team consisting of representatives from the Boards of Worship and Fine Arts, Lifelong Learning, the Digital & Technical Team, and Pastors and Moderators recently wrote and received a grant of $5,000 from the UCC’s Southwest Conference to expand our hybrid church activities. Hybrid church activities include those actions we were… Continue reading The Palms Receives $5K Hybrid Church Grant

Ecumenical/Interreligious Retreat

The 17th Annual Church of the Palms Marshall Esty Ecumenical/Interreligious Retreat: September 7 – 10, 2021 at Chapel Rock Conference Center, Prescott, Arizona Solidarity — Antiracism Training with Rev. Joan Crawford African-American culture is distinctively different from European American culture. This reality, along with a truncated version of American history, as well as a lack… Continue reading Ecumenical/Interreligious Retreat