Category: Newsletter

As I sat down to write this month’s article, I was reminded once again just how quickly this year has
flown by. How is it already July? Everyone is in full summer mode with trips to the pool, trips to the
beach, trips to visit family and friends and for those of us in Central Texas, we are just trying to stay
cool in these record-breaking Texas temperatures. July isn’t typically known for change, but I would be
remiss if I didn’t share a tad of all the happenings around CCC! As the adage goes, “when one door
closes, another one opens!”

As our nation prepares to celebrate Independence Day, it is important that we remember that while we
Americans rightly celebrate the hard-fought-for freedoms from tyranny and oppression that we enjoy after
our revolutionary war, with Britain, and the many individual rights and liberties that our Constitution
guarantees for us as citizens, those of us who are Christian must acknowledge that we are to consider
ourselves as first and foremost inter –dependent rather than independent.

“Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to yourneighbor, “Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it” when you have it with you.” – Proverbs 3:27-28 “Don’t wait until it’s too late to tell someone how much you...

Yo howdy all y’all! It is Memorial Day as I write, sitting this early morning in the shade of one of our heritage pecan trees. The light of the rising sun reflects off the windows of the Capitol – random sparkles briefly on the golden star held aloft by the goddess of Liberty atop the...

Green Chalice? What is that? The Green Chalice Program is a hands-on mission of Disciples Home Mission of the General Ministry of the Christian Church (Disciple of Christ). The purpose of the Green Chalice Program is to encourage and assist local congregations to live out their faith by caring for creation. Its goal is to...

Yo howdy, All Y’all. Early in his presence as our Senior Pastor, Pastor Layne placed little signs in ourgarden, two of which read:“Watch the space!Wildflower garden in progress!” Just so y’all know, “Wild!” precedes “flowers!” Some of our gardens are clearly in the “wild” phase. “But if we hope for what we do not see,...