Category: Rev. Patricia Farris
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Horizons June 2023
Many of us United Methodists know that June has come as we’re preparing for the session of our Annual Conference. This year, the California-Pacific Conference will meet mostly in-person for the first time in three years. And we will be led by our new bishop, Dottie Escobedo-Frank. How wonderful it will be to gather with…
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Horizons May 2023
Horizons May 2023 We continue to journey together through this 50-day season of Eastertide, asking ourselves: “What Are You Seeing?” What new life do you see springing up? Where are you seeing signs of the Risen Christ? What new commitments and dreams is our Risen Lord calling forth in you? Responding to our Missions and…
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Horizons April 2023
On the Day of Resurrection, Easter, and the days and weeks following, the disciples and others could hardly believe their eyes. On Easter morning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to the tomb. The stone was rolled away. “See the place where he lay,” the angel said to them. “Now he’s going on ahead…
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Horizons – March 2023
This Lent, we have adopted the theme “seeking: honest questions for deeper faith” from worship materials provided by a group of pastors and scholars called “Sanctified Art.” The Gospel stories for Lent this year offer us many stories of Jesus encountering people who are seeking: Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman at the well, a man born…
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Horizons – February 2023
The season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, February 22. Lent is a 40-day season given to us as a time of spiritual preparation for the astonishing story of Easter. Traditionally, Lent is a time to fast—to refrain from excess and experience our hunger for God; a time to pray and study the Word of…