Category: Rev. Patricia Farris
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Horizons – May 2024
Horizons – May 2024: Farewell from Rev. Patricia Farris Thank you. The privilege of serving alongside you as your Senior Minister for these past 26 years has been a great joy. My mind and heart are full of memories, stories, faces, experiences, challenges, accomplishments, milestones, and adventures. I am deeply grateful for each and all…
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Horizons – April 2024
Horizons – April 2024 Easter bursts upon us, blossoming with new life all around in this new season in our lives and in the life of the church. Through Lent we have prayed: “May Spring come to us; be in us; and recreate new life in us!” Now our hearts overflow in the joy of…
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Horizons – March 2024
Horizons – March 2024 For many years, this column in our Sentinel newsletter has been called “HORIZONS,” drawing our gaze upward and out to just beyond the limits of our field of view. Diana Butler Bass writes in Grounded, the book for Rev. Keri’s Lenten study, that the horizon is the line where heaven and…
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Horizons – February 2024
Horizons – February 2024 LENT 2024: Deeper Roots; Wide-spreading Branches – May Spring come to us, be in us, and recreate new life in us! The season of Lent starts early this year. This forty-day season of preparing our hearts for the amazing good news of the Resurrection begins on Ash Wednesday, February 14. The…
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Horizons – January 2024
As a new year begins, a new year also begins in the church calendar. We move from Advent and Christmas into the season of Epiphany. It begins with the arrival of the Magi at the manger, then moves through the baptism of Jesus and stories of Jesus’ life. It may be that the story of…