Christ Church

Rebalancing Checking Accounts at Christ Church

July 1, 2025The Vestry of Christ Episcopal Church Parishioners may recall a conversation at the Finance Town Hall on September 29, 2024 about various balances in the Parish’s bank accounts. The “general” operating account, used to cover our routine daily…

Sharing the Harvest!

Our Greening Ministry will be setting up a table in the back of Wells Hall during coffee hour on Sundays during the summer so we can share the harvest of our home vegetable and flower gardens with one other. Please…

EFN Warehouse Day

On Saturday, June 7, a group of Christ Church members volunteered at the Emergency Food Network (EFN) warehouse in Lakewood to fill boxes with food that are then delivered to the homes of people unable to get to an area Food Bank. This delivery service is…

Litter Isn’t Pretty

When you are out for a walk, do you ever find trash? Do you ever pick it up? On a recent Saturday morning, I joined approximately 20 other individuals who were as eager as I was to help pick up…

Cathedral Day 2024

Over 150 people were individually received or confirmed by the bishop in a glorious service at St. Mark's cathedral on Saturday, April 27. Folks from Christ Church accompanied King and Dee Schoenfeld, and Michael and Kathy Collier as they were received into the Episcopal Church.

Honest Bias

It is worth, for a moment, to consider the good things we learned that came out of the pandemic. We too can wander in the wilderness, and come out with a renewed sense of who we are, and who God might be calling us to be, what the reign of God might look like in this place, in this time, according to our gifts.

Beloved in you God is well pleased

That is salvation. To become like God in Jesus who seeks the liberation, the healing, the flourishing, of all creation. As in Genesis, when God sees her creation and calls it good, we are seen by God, and God is pleased. God’s pleasure in us is no more preceded by our faith, or belief, or action, than is God’s pleasure in the world God has created. We are a delight to God because we are already God’s.