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Dear Christ Church, I slipped alone into a midnight service and looked back as the cross, lifted high, came down the aisle toward me, trailed by a choir. I lost it, in the very best way. Not long after that I found myself attending Ash Wednesday and Holy Week services in a liturgical-sacramental church, unable […]

Dear Christ Church, What do snails, backyards, trauma, and Lent have to do with each other? Read on (and listen) and you’ll piece it together. With Ash Wednesday only twelve days away it’s time for us to begin preparing to “observe a holy Lent,” as the prayer book puts it. In the weeks to come

Dear Christ Church, If you are like most people who come to Christ Church, you came without an Anglican background. We are very excited to offer The Anglican Way class this spring! Come join us simply to learn more about Anglican worship, history, and practices, or to get ready for confirmation (The Anglican Way class

Today’s guest post was written by the Christ Church Missions Team. Christ Church, We are happy to announce that our annual Guatemala mission trip is back! We have done this trip every year for well over a decade until the pandemic shut it down for a few years, but we’re now making plans to take

Dear Christ Church, After four and a half years of wholeheartedly serving on our Christ Church staff as Director of Children’s Ministry, I’m sad to share that Terrice Tinsley, and her husband Richard, have prayerfully discerned a call from the Lord to new places of ministry. In the next few weeks, the Tinsley’s will be

Dear Christ Church,  Placed in your hand, every Sunday at worship, is bread prepared by one of our volunteer bakers. We “break bread” in this way, together consuming the host from one batch of dough, to express that “there is one body and one Spirit, just as [we] were called to one hope; one Lord,

Dear Christ Church, Today is the Feast of the Epiphany. Though God long ago had promised that His people would be a light to all peoples and a blessing to all nations, the story of Jesus’ birth remained an “in-house” affair. Up to this point all the characters have been Israelites. Matthew records the story

Dear Christ Church, In this final enews of 2022 I want to bring together two threads and invite our church into a reflection. First, a ministry highlight for me this past year was preaching through Revelation. One of my chief goals in that series was to help everyone trust God’s Word more deeply. I have

This guest post was written by Julie Chewing, Director of Communications Dear Christ Church, The turn of the weather and the crisp air rushing in is fitting as we transition from one season to another, turning the page of our calendar over from Advent to Christmastide. Sometimes cold weather can feel cleansing and in that

Dear Christ Church, As we near the end of our sermon series, Becoming Tenders of the Garden, here are some creative ways to engage Advent with God’s good news of restoration of all things.  The Music. One of my kids shared a song with me a few years ago that caused me to drop everything