A Pastor’s Gratitude
Galilee said farewell to Pastor Geitra on Sunday, July 17. She is moving on to be Associate Pastor at Centreville UMC. Here she says one last goodbye. Thank you, Galilee and Chapel, for a wonderful send off this Sunday! It was great to see so many of you. Our family felt loved because of […]
Garden Blessing
Each spring when planting begins in Galilee’s Gift Garden, church members and garden volunteers gather around to pray for God’s blessing on the seeds and soil that will provide fresh vegetables for our community’s food banks. It’s a good time to remember and reflect that life itself began in a garden and that we are […]
Enduring Word
I recently had the joy of teaching our youth a bit about the Bible—who wrote it, and why, and the process it took over thousands of years for divinely inspired poems, historical scrolls, and letters to become the cohesive work that we know today. Once we sorted through some of the material facts about Scripture, we […]
All God’s People
Now that the kids have started back to school, I’ve been spending a bit more time in the office. And today, while others were out to lunch, I helped to cover the phones. I only answered one phone call. The caller asked if our sanctuary was open today. His English was a bit difficult to […]
“Do You Not Perceive It?”
Larry Motz was a legend in my hometown of Green, Ohio. High school students longed to be in his advanced English class, not because they loved the tough assignments, but because they loved who Mr Motz was and how he treated students. Mostly they loved how he made them see the world. I often remember […]
A Light Shines in the Darkness
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.” – John 8:12 You might have noticed a few changes in our livestream worship service. We’re inviting church members to assist in worship and we’ve brought back […]