Dearest Central Christian Church Family, I am so truly honored to have received the divinity scholarship again this year. Thegenerosity extended through scholarships such as this allows students like me to attendseminary without incurring a large sum of educational debt. As I shared at last month’s Administrative Council meeting and in my Octobernewsletter article, I...
“They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for want of shelter.” Job 24:7-8 “The natives showed us extraordinary kindness; for because of the rain that had set in andbecause of the cold, they kindled a...
You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger – James 1:19 Listening is a creative force. Something quite wonderful occurs when we are listened to fully. We expand, ideas come to life and grow, we remember who we are. Some speak of...
Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. – Ephesians 3:20-21 A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to...
Hello CCC, It’s wild to think about, but it’s coming close to the time where we need to begin preparing for Christmas! We have a beautiful full set of bells at CCC that we’ve been using to signify the start of worship each Sunday, but I’d love to use them to play a full song...
Dear Sisters and Brothers, I spent some time earlier this week looking through a National Geographic publication titled, Jesus: An Illustrated Life. It is one of those magazines that we see regularly in the checkout line at the grocery (exactly where I had seen this one some months ago.) It had caught my eye and...
