What if? We build a world. Share a life. Imagine a future. Not just for ourselves, but for our communal and global brothers and sisters…..
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Not wanting to jump over the importance of Transfiguration Sunday marking the end of our Epiphany journey, but I want to again invite us to enter Lent through our Glitter + Ash Wednesday service at 6pm on February 26…..
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"Created in God's Image: Sacred Conversation for Mission and Ministry," where we will be learning and discussing issues related to gender and sexuality….
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“Glitter Ashes let the world know that we are progressive, queer-positive Christians.…By becoming visible, we show our faith in God who empowers us and wants us to repent of hurting each other….
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… we have an opportunity to plant like Paul and water like Apollos our very own Pilgrim garden on Saturday, February 22 when we gather for the Lay Leadership Retreat from 8:30 am - 12:30 pm. Together, we will give, receive, plant, and water in the service for the future for which God yearns in and through us.
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Pilgrim adults and children were hard at work/ having fun on Feb 8, making Valentine’s Day cards for members of the congregation who are not able to join us at worship…..
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….Epiphanies, she remarked, “offer an opportunity to create new ways of living from our fragments of revelation.” In moments that illumine, our experience might just be enlarged, the boundaries we create (or are created around us) might just be made more permeable. ….
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Church Auxiliary was treated to a luncheon on Feb 3 hosted by Ms. Muhammed from All My Children, the daycare center on the lower level of Pilgrim UCC. The luncheon was a thank-you for….
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During worship, we heard an announcement from the Ground Hog Day official and Durham’s Ground Hogs Darlene and Dagwood….
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Pilgrims,
Please join me in offering our gratitude and praise to Pilgrim's Budget Committee and Church Council for the care in which they shepherded our 2020 budget to its successful conclusion with our congregational approval this past Sunday…..
On Jan 26, Pilgrim welcomed Nick Malinowski as our new music director. …
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Pilgrims,
We have a wonderfully rich and full weekend in store that will help us grow as beloved community…..
HI Pilgrims,
So weird to find myself writing this letter again from Orlando, but I unexpectedly needed to fly back down.Thank you for the grace you have offered for me….
We have extended an offer to Pilgrim's next Director of Music: Nick Malinowski! Nick is formally trained as an opera singer, but ultimately decided ….
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…a word of thanks for the way in which you care for your pastor and share your generosity in the Christmas season. I am deeply appreciative for the Christmas gift I received from you and recognize the many layers of love that brought it into being…..
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Begin by getting your pen or pencil, and paper, or whatever it is you want to write on, and with. Next, set a timer for 3 minutes, and create a list of 20-25 concrete words. Nouns and verbs. Needle. Leaf. River. Walnut. Pen. Scream… go!…..
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Happy New Year from your solar team. A few statistics to warm your pocketbooks.
We have saved over a hundred thousand lbs. of carbon dioxide from being emitted to the atmosphere. ….
I pray you each had a joyous day with those with whom you wanted to share presence and time. This week between God coming among us anew and the turning of a new decade feels like a threshold gift where we might open ourselves to catch wondrous glimpses of God's movement amidst……
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This year’s pageant was loosely in the form of Las Posadas, a traditional Mexican and Mexican American Christmas tradition that reenacts Mary & Joseph’s search for an inn. In our Pilgrim Posada, all of the out-of-towners, including the shepherds and Magi, were rejected twice before finding La Posada de Paz (Inn of Peace). ….
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Pilgrims,
I find myself startled that Christmas Eve is five days away with a Posada as the preparer of its way. Where has advent gone? Have there been any spiritual awakenings…..