Summer Sunday WORSHIP at 10 am August 4 “Saving Seats at the Table” – Communion Sunday, Luke 14:7-15 Rev. Erika Marksbury preaching Special Music from Rob Porter August 11 “Grumbling Tummies” – 1 Corinthians 11:17-22, 31-34 Rev. Erika Marksbury preaching Special Music from Nadya King August 18 “Refreshing Our Souls” – Psalm 23 WORSHIP IN…
Training and supporting Southeast Asian leaders who are seeking to build bridges across tribal lines in the Mekong region of Thailand The Williams will speak in worship on July 21 Katrina and Kyle strive to provide a platform for marginalized people to share their stories. To make these stories even more powerful they gather and…
July 7 “Table Manners, Part One” – Communion Sunday – Luke 11:37-46, Rev. Erika Marksbury preaching July 14 “Table Manners, Part Two” – Matthew 15:21-28, Rev. Erika Marksbury preaching July 21 “Why We Go” – John 10:10, Kyle Williams, Global Servant, guest preaching Read about Kyle & Katrina Williams and their work with International…
April 7 – 5th Sunday of Lent – “Walking Toward What Is” Luke 9:1-6, Guest preacher, Rev. Margaret Marcuson Special Music from FBC Choir at 9 o’clock Rev. Marcuson is a friend of FBC Mac, an author, a consultant & and coach, and a “leader of leaders.” She pastored the First Baptist Church of Gardner,…
The archives, I may have told you, are gorgeous. Church records were for many years hand- written in perfect calligraphy into a book with a marbled brown cover. The long, narrow book holds meeting minutes, attendance lists, expense records, and community covenants. But there’s more: Old bulletins tell of a sermon series “introducing His Royal Majesty,…
In high school, my friend Todd worked at a grocery store. I brought some bread and fruit through his checkout line once and was surprised to see a bright green sticker on his nametag that announced, “I’M NEW HERE!” I asked him, “Haven’t you worked here for a while now?” He told me, “I’ve been…
“Worship is primary theology,” writes Kathleen Norris. “It is also home, which is, as the saying goes, the place where they have to take you in. There is no one who is not welcome in God’s house, and nothing can alter that fact. When people come together to worship, they come as God knows them,…
July 3 Communion Sunday, Message – “The Beauty of This Place”, Psalm 50 July 10 Message – “Enough for Today”, Matthew 6:25-34 July 17 Message – “Thing on These Things”, Philippians 4″1-8 July 24 Message – “On Production”, James 1″19-27 July 31 5th Sunday Message – “Longing, Again”, Psalm 27
June 5 – Guest Preacher, Gregg Sneller (former FBC McMinnville associate pastor, currently on staff with American Baptist International Ministries) June 12 – In Simplicity, Luke 7:36-50 June 19 – In the Beginning Was Beauty, Genesis 1 June 26 – Beginning Again, Genesis 2
In Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1868 novel, ‘The Idiot’, one character asks another, “Is it true that you once said, ‘Beauty will save the world’?” The question is often misquoted as a statement, an affirmative – but I think it’s worth considering as a question. We are surrounded by beauty – the peaks of Mt. Hood and…