Author Archives: Rod Brayfindley

We all have people and situations we pray for. In our church family we have several we pray for regularly, who are in treatment or dealing with long term disease.

March 2020. COVID requires shut downs of most of the lives we had. Churches and schools and business in the millions were shuttered. Many businesses and churches will not everContinue reading “Did We Do Our Job?”

As Holy Week begins, we are all figuring out how to honor our souls and God’s work at home. Do take the time to come to worship on Palm Sunday,Continue reading “Taking Holy Time”

We will celebrate the resurrection of Christ. Always. But how this year?    The Love First Word on Thursday April 1 will be a short Maundy Thursday service. Please tuneContinue reading “Holy Week and Easter”

First Church took on a need in the life of a person in the documenting process seeking legal immigration status. She is transgender, and her risk in her home countryContinue reading “Great Help”

Some of us are kind of new to First Church. And already we see the beauty and grace within this community and our hearts get knit together with the restContinue reading “How Does This Happen?”

As a congregation strongly committed to the environment, it has broken many of our hearts that two trees had to be removed from our Courtyard due to sidewalk and potentialContinue reading “Tree Tragedy”

Many in our congregation along with friends from other communities have been asking for more on how to change the race dialog in our own spheres. And dialog, we allContinue reading “AntiRacist: From a What to a How; Sign Up Now Begins Next Sunday!”