Finally!!! Pilgrims were able to worship together for the first time since COVID began! Click to see more photos.
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Watch a video walk-through of the Stations of the Cross, and outdoor event prepared by Pilgrim’s deacons…..
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Pilgrims, This week, this morning, has been full. Full of people. I have seen more of you (in person, consecutively) throughout the past four days, especially today, than I have throughout what seems like the entire year. And, I have loved each connection. All the while having to guard against leaping up and hugging each of you….
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Martha Fairbank’s family has given Pilgrim a bluebird house in her honor. Martha was a wonderful Pilgrim, and also a long-time organist and choir director for our church. Thank you for this gift!
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Pilgrims,
This week we celebrate Palm/Passion Sunday. Not knowing which to emphasize on this first Sunday leading into Holy Week, it might be best to confess that the word “celebrate” gets complicated…..
Pilgrims, I snuck out of Durham Sunday after worship for the second time in a year….
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Hello Pilgrims, I am mindful that I pen this letter on the anniversary of the United States naming the pandemic, and our ensuing shutdown, that still has its hold on the world, even as we see signs of hope with numbers of cases declining and numbers of vaccines increasing…..
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Pilgrim worship on Sunday March 7 was a celebration of International Women’s Day — #Challenge to Lead…..
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Melinda Killenberg, a 40+ year Pilgrim member, helped get the Meals on Wheels program going in Durham many years ago…..
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….When I look back at this week's work, I find myself grateful. For each reminds me that Pilgrim is taking these necessary and important steps. And even if they feel small, they move us forward.
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Hello Pilgrims, With joy, I want to share that our new church administrator, Franklin Hirsch, will be coming on board Tuesday, March 16…..
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….Thank you all who joined in our inaugural lenten worship service…..
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We turn the corner, after Transfiguration Sunday, to our Lenten Journey…..
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My beloved pilgrims, Let me offer a word that my letter will be solely utilitarian in nature this week and I ask that you read it until the end. There are a few items that I would like to bring to your prayerful attention in the hope that you feel invited to join in when/where you are able…..
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Creating a Pilgrim Pollinator Garden!
The Creation Justice team and friends worked together on Dec 5 and 12, 2020 to prep beds and plant bulbs as part of a larger pollinator garden project.
Ah, Pilgrim. Sometimes our greatest hopes and best laid plans go sideways unexpectedly…..
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I confess, beloved Pilgrims, I got very little done on Wednesday. Glued to multiple devices to bear witness to the unfolding of our country’s democratic transition….
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…We, the called and elected leaders of the United Church of Christ, heirs of a tradition rich with saints who have gone before us and whose courage in the struggle for justice and peace informs our own words and actions, rise in one voice, with clarity and unity to condemn the insurrection that took place at the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021…..
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Beloved Community, How is your heart this week? This has been the leading question in many of the meetings I have joined in the aftermath of last week’s siege on the Capitol and its continuing unfolding, in DC and across our country…..
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Beloved Pilgrims, I was celebrating my home church’s unveiling of this banner yesterday while completing the text for this letter on Epiphany, just prior to the onset of the horrifying events that occurred in our nation’s Capitol….
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