Pilgrims, Sunday we will welcome some new and some returning folks to Pilgrim with our new member celebration. Rosalie Edmonds, Kris Fajhe, and Kim Theobald have discerned that Pilgrim feels right to be their church home….
Read MorePilgrims, April showers feel like they are coming in with a roar this week….
Read MoreOn April 7, we said farewell and thank you so much! to Jada Poteat, our Interim Music Director…..
Read MorePilgrims, As I race after a two and a half year old energetic toddler this week, I take a quiet moment during nap time to pause and thank everyone who made our Holy Week and Easter so remarkable….
Read MoreEarly Easter morning we said to each other, “Today we know that love has won….
Read MorePilgrims, I write this letter to you on Maundy Thursday. A day filled with emotion, intimacy, heartbreak….
Read MorePilgrims, I must admit I have found it challenging to hold our celebration and participation in Crop Walk with our entry into Holy Week on Palm/Passion Sunday….
Read MorePilgrims, A part of me was grateful our gospel text ended where it did last week–with Peter claiming Jesus as Messiah and Jesus naming Peter as the foundation for the church.
Read MorePilgrims, I’ve been wrestling this week with Jesus’ question to the disciples from our gospel text for Sunday. After exploring the word on the street about who people think he is, he turns and asks Peter, “and who do you say that I am?”….
Read MoreGreetings Pilgrims! With the last Sunday of Black History month nearly here I wanted to offer up this excerpt from a sermon from Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, “The Gospel and the Blues.” …
Read MorePilgrims, In our gospel lesson for the second Sunday in Lent, Jesus responds to the disciples' fearful cry upon seeing a ghostly aberration walking on water toward them with the words, “take heart.”….
Read MorePilgrims, I want to share a little about our Lenten journey this year. We will be focusing on the life and faith of one of Jesus’ most famous disciples–Peter….
Read MorePilgrims, One of the items on my January to do list that helps me to review the past year is analyzing the landscape of my monthly spending…
Read MorePilgrims, As we continue to witness the tragic crisis in the Middle East that escalated on Oct. 7….
Read MoreBeloved Pilgrims, well— This week I have come to know more acutely than I want what it means to feel unclean….
Read MoreGreetings Friends, When deciding what to write to you in a given week I have a few places I turn to, to try and find a helpful and timely message….
Read MoreAs I’m pondering the story of Herod and the magi and the epiphany season I was called to a particular 2024 Richard Rohr reflection on the theme of radical resilience…..
Read MoreBeloved Pilgrims, I am delighted to welcome Rev. Linda Bullock Vanhook, Associate Minister, Mt Level Missionary Baptist Church to Pilgrim this Sunday….
Read MoreSunday, we welcomed Jada Poteat to the choir loft to lead and guide all things musical. …
Read MoreBeloved Pilgrims, This first week of January 2024, your pastor must have left her brain in 2023 because as early as January 2nd, I missed a board meeting with DCIA….
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