A Birthday Blessing for Greta

It was a joy to help celebrate Greta Dershimer on her 90th birthday and to gather with friends and loved ones in our church’s beautiful gardens.  Happy Birthday, Greta!  Several people asked me to share the blessing I offered Greta that day. It is posted below. Friends, please know that...

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October Art Show: BozART Gallery Group Show

Featured Artists Judith Ely Sara Gondwe Zainab Haider Shirley Paul Juliette Swenson Reach them at www.BozArtgallery.com   Judith Ely Judith has been drawing all of her life and painting for the last thirty years.  Judith spent fifteen years honing her skill with watercolors and then branched out into acrylic and multimedia...

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Reporter’s notes, September 2021 Board meeting

We did a brief check-in and approved the pre-submitted reports.   Under “old business”, we discussed several issues at some length.  VP Elizabeth Breeden had provided a one page written summary of the designated gift policy and why it can be controversial to just accept designated gifts outright.  We discussed the...

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President’s September Report

President’s Report September 2021 Pam McIntire This month we have begun preparing for the Developmental Minister search. The board selected
 members for the Developmental Minister Search Committee and met to discuss what goals we will
 have for the developmental ministry years. We will have two Listening Circles to talk with
...

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Gratitude and Goodbye from Rev. Alex

Dear Congregation: How full of love and joy my heart was this past Sunday. The reception was lovely! Thank you for the many lovely notes and congregational gift of the word cloud. Even as these goodbyes are sad, I was so grateful to have a chance to say them. Thank...

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Leia’s Letter to Families

September 9, 2021 Dear Families: Warm greetings to you! Our children and youth faith development programming is about to start.  It has been a long time since I have seen many of you.  I am looking forward to gathering with you outside with our face masks on soon! Starting Sunday...

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Building Use Update September 7th, 2021

Here are the updates from the September 7th meeting of the Building Use/Re-Opening Task Force. We are moving to RED – meetings of 10 people or less indoors, 50 people or less outdoors. We base the building use status on the 7-day average of new Covid cases in the Blue...

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Building Use Update, Sept 1

Here are the updates from the August 31 meeting of the Building Use/Re-Opening Task Force. We are holding at ORANGE – meetings of 50 people or less.  But we are anticipating that next week we may need to move to RED —  10 people or less. We base the building...

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