This year marked my 7th consecutive trip to Hollywood, South Carolina. For years I would hear Ron Jackson talking about the mission and the needs of the people. I couldn’t believe that this level of poverty could exist in the United States. On my first trip down, I couldn’t believe my eyes. The condition of [...]
Late one night, while all was quiet, and the respectable people were in bed, or at very least at home minding their own business… a Pharisee, a religious leader, who studied the Torah, who knew the law… a good, faithful, Jewish man crept through the streets, to visit Jesus. He had questions that only Jesus [...]
The pictures on the news are terrifying. Waves pushing burning debris as entire villages are buried. My heart aches for families trying to find loved ones, waiting with fear for news of the worst. There are days I’m so grateful to be a United Methodist. Thanks to our connectional system, we can respond quickly to [...]
“Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ Into the future…” Steve Miller, Fly Like an Eagle. Welcome to Lent. Just forty days and six Sundays until Easter. That’s just 1104 hours. How will you spend them? Most likely you’ll spend just about a third of those hours sleeping. That leaves you 736 hours. That’s 44,160 minutes [...]
Dear Friends, This week, we’ve lost one of the saints of our church. Rosemarie Mattern died on Tuesday morning. She just joined our church two years ago, and yet her life changed ours. We’ll be celebrating her life tonight, at 7pm, at Ryder’s funeral home in South Hadley. Tomorrow, at 5:30 we send off the [...]
