Pastor’s Message: Mar. 15, 2021
CHUMC Family, We have enjoyed seeing a number of you in worship on Sundays. While we have not utilized any means of knowing who is online with us, I hope more of you have been able to continue to connect to our livestream and participate in that way. If you are having any issues, please...
Pastor’s Message: Mar. 8, 2021
We continue to embrace the journey this Lenten Season as we follow the biblical narrative toward the discipleship of the heart. This week, we discussed Exodus 20:1-17 and reflected on the importance of following the way God has placed before us and how we are continually shaped by God’s grace as we do. The love...
Pastor’s Message: Mar. 1, 2021
In our Embracing the Journey Lenten worship series, we continue to embrace the journey of the covenant initiated by God as God seeks to restore all humanity and all creation from the power and effects of sin and death. Our call to deepen our discipleship this Lenten season is a call to be a Spirit-empowered...
Pastor’s Message: Feb. 22, 2021
Friends, It was a relief to speak with almost all of our CHUMC family and learn you had either been spared the challenges of last week’s winter storm or were able to brave the cold and turn to others who could lend a hand. Praise God. As announced by email Saturday and in worship Sunday,...
Pastor’s Message: Feb. 15, 2021
Well, our first snowpocalypse in several years is upon us. I do not know about you but I love the snow and the cold. I am sure that is because it is so infrequent here that it can be encountered as a fun change. I hear that living through the winter up north is quite...
Pastor’s Message: Feb. 8, 2021
Franciscan friar Richard Rohr of the Center for Action and Contemplation writes, “Love is the energy that sustains the universe, moving everything toward resurrection.” Love is that self-giving approach to life revealed to us in the Triune God embodied in Jesus who came to reveal love to a world held captive by its opposite. If...
Pastor’s Message: Feb. 1, 2021
You may have heard that, in the midst of this pandemic, our youth minister and ministry intern Adam Lubbers has been facilitating discussions with our new Discipleship Team, made up of our mission & outreach, children’s, and youth committees, to discern and discover how we might best fulfill the mission of the church in our...
Pastor’s Message: Jan. 25, 2021
We are almost a month into a new year and, in many ways, it seems 2021 wants to be the second verse same as the first. The pandemic numbers have been climbing. New variants of COVID-19 which are more infectious threaten to throw another wrench in our recovery process. This has delayed our ability to...