Yo Howdy All Y’all – it is a beautiful day to walk about our gardens. Curiously, I felt summer was filled with beautiful days to walk about our garden, although thebest times were sunrise and sunset, there is a special satisfaction in the comfort of the pecantree canopy even if it is actually 110 degrees...
Author: Phil Conard (Phil Conard)
Nourishing People as an Urban Sanctury
Yo howdy All Yall – it is a beautiful day! One of the demonstrations that I love of our being church is that we nourish people – welcoming strangersto share at our table and experience our Austin Urban Sanctuary. Our presence downtown creates opportunities to meet people visiting our community; those engagedwith our civic process...
Reaping Generously, Even in this HEAT.
Yo howdy all y’all – it is a beautiful day! Everyday around noon – when the summertime heat index accelerates it’s rise – the shade from our pecans begins to embrace the seating along our San Antonio hillside, and often there is even a soft breeze. It is comforting to pause and pray, to sit...
Thank You’s to Resilient Bloomers
Yo Howdy All Y’all – it is a beautiful day to be somewhere in our gardens! A special thank you to our ever-learning and now pulpit preachin’ Associate Pastor Heidi for her patiencewith me again for this overdue entry into this edition of the Window. Thank you, (I’m blaming our churchgardens – they make me...
Gardening with God
Yo howdy, all y’all, Most everything in our garden is growing like weeds – a blooming congregationof wild weeds. Gardening with God ya gotta accept some wild weeds.Hopefully, we’ll have an ongoing rotation of blooms and textured colors all the way till fall.Produce deliveries to Angel’s House Soup Kitchen are increasing in variety and weight....
weeds growing in the cracks
Pastor Layne spoke recently about the many ways “blessings” can be defined. We are blessed to be member-stewards of the abundance that includes Central Christian Church, Austin. We share an abundance of joyful spirit, knowing as we do and practicing as best we can right now the teachings of Jesus. We accept and share the...