Dear friends, It’s almost Pentecost! This year, we will celebrate a week late, so we can focus our worship on remembrance on Memorial Day weekend. That Sunday, May 28, we will join with our siblings at Plymouth Church for a service led by our Open Spirit Intern, Deanne Joy. Deanne has created a series […]
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Planting Seeds
“The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. But when the grain […]
Music at Edwards: May 2023
This May we’ll continue a years-long tradition with a Mothers’ Day service that includes the music of John Rutter. As our program year winds down and we change to a very active summer season of worship, we plan to have another choir anthem Sunday in early June. For more information on these as well as […]
Earth, Water, Air
Dear friends, What an inspiring Lent and Easter! I am so grateful for the profound sharing in our Lenten Devotional and for the opportunity to travel together through this season. I loved sharing in a post-parade Palm Sunday communion service with our siblings from El Toque del Maestro; it reminds me of what communion is […]
April Music at Edwards
This month, I’m wearing my tech hat rather than my music hat. At Staff Meeting and Council at the end of March we concluded that our technology is coming together consistently enough nowadays that we are ready to begin the transition toward a team of volunteers who will manage the setup and breakdown on Sunday […]
Small Moments of Grace
You have been born anew, not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God. 1 Peter 1:23 Dear friends, As I write this the daffodils are sprouting up and beginning to take life, despite the snow that remains in my front yard. Their fragile green stalks sway in the […]
Traveling Together Toward Easter
Dear friends, “You raise me up.” Throughout the Lenten season, we have sung the chorus of one of our favorite anthems as our response following the Assurance of God’s Forgiveness. We chose this chorus for its connection with our Lenten theme, “Traveling Together Toward Easter.” The chorus acknowledges the ways we are raised up by […]
Be a Sign
“You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all” –2 Cor. 3:2 Dear friends, The children have moved their church calendar to the purple season of Lent, when we prepare for the arrival of Holy Week and the celebration of Easter. This year, we’re learning about the important […]
Sabbatical Reflections
Dear friends, What a gift it is to have had a month of sabbatical in January and February. I am so grateful for your honoring of the value of time for renewal. Fran, Jeannie and I hopped in the car, put my bike on the back, and drove first to Northern Virginia, where we spent […]
Excited for Spring!
Excited for Spring!For church musicians, the best time to think about spring worship music is the middle of winter, we’ve got to be prepared. For the first time, in mid January, I called together anyone at all who is interested in planning music for our services this Lent and Easter. As I write this, our […]