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Dear friends,

As we lean into our theme “A Weary World Rejoices” this Advent season, we hope you will include our Advent Devotional as an Advent spiritual practice. This year, we asked a few of our Elders who are rolling off the Session to reflect on our Advent theme. There is one devotional for each week, which includes a meditation, prayer, and activity. Choose one day each week to read the meditation and prayer and do the activity. We hope this devotional will be a blessing to you this season.

Blessings,

Reverend Audrey

Advent 2023

The season of giving is upon us, there is conflict in the world, and the needs in our communities near and far are significant.

The sacrament of baptism is how we are marked as God’s own. John the Baptist acted in fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah by baptizing individuals after they confessed their sins...

Ever since my first job, I always feared making a mistake.  I feared getting written up, spoken to, or even fired from the job. 

I was born in the New York Presbyterian Hospital and raised on the banks of the Hudson River just west of the city in a New Jersey town aptly named West New York. Throughout my life...

Wait a minute!  This is a Christmas Day story? Where’s “O little town of Bethlehem?” The narrative attributed to John is not a story of...

Lent 2023

Dear friends,

This Lent, we share stories about making all things new through a Lenten Devotional written by the members of our community. It is our hope that these Scripture passages and personal reflections will be a guide as we journey together as a church through this season. Within the pages of the devotional, you will find many connections made with stories about God bringing something new into our lives.

Blessings to you during this season of Lent,
Audrey

Advent 2022

Week One: You are invited to journey through a weekly Advent devotional series created for our whole church family.

“Prepare ye the way of the Lord” is a text that I knew from the Scriptures as a child growing up in the Baptist tradition...

How many times have your holiday plans been interrupted by unexpected travel delays? These unforeseen circumstances take us away...

“God is with us.” This line from Matthew 1 is the essence of what coming home for Christmas meant to me during my college years...

As is the case with most people, I have lived in a number of different houses and apartments. I believe my count at this point...

Past Series

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