Category: Rev. Patricia Farris
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Horizons September 2022
Come Home! It’s time to revive an old First UMC tradition and look forward to Homecoming Sunday, September 11th this year. Homecoming will look different now as we live into being a Both/And congregation. Each week, many of us worship online, for all kinds of reasons—health, distance, work and family schedules, preference. We celebrate our […]
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Horizons August 2022
The title of this column, “Horizons,” calls us to lift our gaze up and out to look ahead, to scan the horizon and peer into the future. It’s always out there in front of us, isn’t it, but sometimes we forget and look down or look back to find orientation and meaning. In a recent […]
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Horizons June/July 2022
Summer is upon us! In the church year, this season is called “Ordinary Time.” Technically, it includes all the weeks that fall outside the great seasons of Christmas and Easter and their preparatory weeks of Advent and Lent. On the church calendar, everything else is “Ordinary.” But that does NOT mean “ordinary” as in “not […]
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May 2022 Horizons
Many of you commented on how meaningful our Lenten Devotional was for you this year. Forty days of writings by folks in our congregation offering a variety of approaches, styles and perspectives. What a blessing as we walked the Lenten path together, carrying something beautiful in our hearts. I think I might just suggest that […]
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April 2022 Horizons
Across these forty days of Lent, we have been reminding ourselves to carry something beautiful in our heart each day, something beautiful to help us keep our focus, find a new perspective, and maintain our resilient faithfulness through difficult times. We’ve also followed the ancient practice of the church to refrain from singing “Alleluia” in […]