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As we come together on 4th of July weekend and celebrate the country’s birthday, we continue to explore the whole idea of family.  Once again this Sunday, Vince Fratello will be bringing the message.  We find family is a variety of places, whether it is the family of Aldersgate, the Wednesday Study group that feel much like family, Roger talks […]

These next two Sundays, worship will be led by our own Vince Fratello.  I’ve read through the sermons and seen his approach to worship and I dearly wish I could be here to listen.  What he is bringing is outstanding and appropriate for our study of Jesus, the family, and the role of the church […]

A celebration last Sunday of my parents’ 65th wedding anniversary had its somber moments as we turned our attention toward Orlando.  The couple that we were celebrating have spent much of the later years of their lives fighting the kind of hatred exemplified so violently last Saturday evening.  I thought it ironic that this massive […]

This Sunday we celebrate the Confirmation Class.  These 15 young folks have far exceeded our expectations and if they are both the present and future of the church, we are certainly in great hands.  Their personalities are very different, their skills are different, their ages, their gifts, their abilities, their feelings about certain things, their […]

This Sunday is graduation Sunday.  We will celebrate those who have finished one course of work and will soon begin another.  For some, it is high school and they are preparing for whatever may come next whether it is college, a break, or a tech school of some kind.  For some it is graduation from college […]