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Facing and Following - June 26, 2022
posted on Jun 28, 2022 8th Sunday of Ordinary Time: 3rd Sunday after Pentecost RCL C Track 1
To cross a creek bed where the water has recently gone down, is not a clean or easy affair. It is mud; it is rocks; it is debris; it is slime. The path that Elisha cros...
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The Passing of Mary Schegel, Frederick Harding, and Phyllis Briley
posted on Jun 28, 2022 Our friend Mary Schlegel died peacefully on Saturday. May she rest in peace and rise in glory. More information will be shared as it comes into us, however, her funeral service will be at Christ Church, on Saturday July 9th at 11am. Lifetime...
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The Passing of Oma Pauley
posted on Jun 21, 2022 Oma Mellora Ross Pauley passed away peacefully at St. Martha/s Nursing home under hospice care in Downingtown PA on June 17, 2022. She was 89 years old, a longtime member of Christ Church and Librarian at Ridley Park Library. Valedictorian of ...
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July '22 Rector's Message
posted on Jun 20, 2022 Summertime. What do you like about summertime? The foods, the fruit, the lack of cold, the pooltime? Two things leap to mind for me fresh fruit and water. Watermelon and strawberries and peaches and cherries, oh my. Freshness and brightness a...
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June 19, 2022
posted on Jun 20, 2022 Darcy* wandered in a bit late to youth group, the rest of us had already begun to eat. Her hair had probably been in a neat ponytail when she left the house in the morning, But by the time she arrived at the church, well that isn't what stylists ...
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June 12, 2022
posted on Jun 13, 2022 When a culturally informed Christian missionary group encounters a community of people with no prior knowledge of the Christian tradition, they do not begin by sharing the texts of Christmas, with the birth of God for us, nor with Easter, with Ch...
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June 12, 2022
posted on Jun 13, 2022 When a culturally informed Christian missionary group encounters a community of people with no prior knowledge of the Christian tradition, they do not begin by sharing the texts of Christmas, with the birth of God for us, nor with Easter, with Ch...
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Acolyte Ministry
posted on Jun 13, 2022 A beautiful part of our Sunday tradition is the chance to be in mutual ministry, worship is both personal and communal. After the stricter months of pandemic isolation, some may find an even deeper value in enjoying space and time with one anothe...
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June 5, 2022
posted on Jun 6, 2022 Pinwheels can be a lovely metaphor for the Holy Spirit: wind and breath and energy. It is an action-packed reminder. The streamers we have here today are lovely for their approximation of the sense of flow and motion and colors of the Spirit. Y...
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May 29, 2022
posted on Jun 6, 2022 "Father, what we do not know, teach us; What we have not; give us, What we are not, kindly make us. For Your Son's sake. Amen." I don't know about you, but I get excited when I hear a movie, I liked will be getting a sequel. The original...
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