What’s Next: For the Sake of Others
Sunday, May 12, 2024. Baptism Sunday. Fr. Matt Dampier homily.
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Character and Calling – Bill Walker
This week’s E-News is guest-written by Bill Walker. Dear Christ Church, Perhaps you’ve heard it said that God doesn’t call the equipped but rather equips the called. There is truth and biblical basis to this! God does indeed call and use even the most ordinary and unexpected people to accomplish his mission in the
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Vestry Candidates 2024
Dear Christ Church, I am pleased to announce our new Vestry candidates for 2024: Clay Davis and Amy McLaughlin. You can learn more about them here. Collectively, they represent many years of servant-leadership in contexts such as Small Group Leadership, Altar Guild, Kids Quest and Children’s Ministry, Living Waters, and other forms of quiet service. They
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2024 Vestry Candidates
Dear Christ Church, I am pleased to announce our new Vestry candidates for 2024: Clay Davis and Amy McLaughlin. You can learn more about them below. Collectively, they represent many years of servant-leadership in contexts such as Small Group Leadership, Altar Guild, Kids Quest and Children’s Ministry, Living Waters, and other forms of quiet service.
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Upcoming: Men’s Retreat + Mother’s Morning Out
Dear Christ Church, The Men’s Retreat is coming up soon (May 24-26) and registration is open! Josh Coulter, a member of the retreat planning committee who attended last year’s retreat, has a personal appeal for all the men of Christ Church. For those who attend the men’s retreat and have young children, a donor has generously made it
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People of the Ampersand
Dear Christ Church, Cliff and Christine charged us in “The Letter to the Church at 112 Medina” to be a “People of the Ampersand.” A people who can hold the both/and of our faith. God is three and one. Jesus is human and divine. And this week, following the ending of Fr. Cliff’s time as rector of Christ
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Letter to 112 Medina
Dear Christ Church, The unseen and devoted faithful run the world. This is my final “CliffNotes” to you, a weekly practice I started 15 years ago when Deacon Nancy Lewis (née Scamacca) was our first operations director. She helped us to improve our communications (like creating this enews) and take some other “growing up”
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Open to love. Open to God.
Dear Christ Church, These days, with every rising and setting of the sun, things feel ephemeral–beginnings and endings, letting go and picking up, the carousel of people, places, things, and time. At the center of it all is a still point, the unchanging and eternal habitation of love, beauty, friendship, glory, the holy of holies.
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The Story of Thomas – Fr. Matt Dampier
Sunday, April 11, 2024. Second Sunday in Easter. John 20:19–31. Fr. Matt Dampier discusses the story of Thomas and the care the disciple received from Christ after the resurrection.
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Come and Celebrate!
Dear Christ Church, “Servant of the Servants of God.” That is the title Gregory the Great gave to pastors. And that is what Cliff and Christine have been to Christ Church these past 18 years. I remember my first meal with the Warners. Lexie and I were eating lunch and hearing about their love for
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