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2020 Summer Worship Services
The Worship Committee is pleased to announce the schedule of lay-led worship services for 2020. Members of our community will be leading us in Sunday morning worship from July 12 through August 26. We truly hope you’ll join us wherever you are for some or all of these insightful, creative, and celebratory services!
Summer virtual services begin at 10:30 a.m.
Flower Communion Sunday – June 21, 2020
What an exquisite bouquet of people you are! I am touched and moved, even today, even in this time of physical distancing – or perhaps especially because of it – by this ritual and by Rev. Capek’s original message to his people…the simple message that each person is...
Musically Speaking, June 2020
This month’s Musically Speaking is contributed by Guy Urban.
Charlyn is officially the FPW Music Director, and I am officially the accompanist, although it’s probably pretty obvious that we work together on almost every aspect of music at FPW.
“Heroes” – June 7, 2020
Well, it was another up and down week in national news. My eyes were on the protesters, the police, the military, the mysterious para-military forces who showed up on the streets of DC, and on those who govern at the state and federal levels. There was a lot going on....
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Moving Forward When You Cannot See
Last week I spoke of my experience, as a sailor, of having been becalmed…that experience of having the wind, upon which I relied entirely, stop blowing…of having found myself stuck, unable to move, forced to sit still, forced to wait. I quoted Richard Bode from his...
In the Interim – May 1, 2020
In the fall when we chose our worship themes for the year, we decided on the theme of “thresholds” for May. Thresholds are those places between and it seemed like a promising theme for a congregation between settled ministers and on the cusp of its second of two...
“Your Life is Precious”
I don’t know who needs to hear this this week, but your life is precious…more precious than any stock holdings…more precious than anyone’s retirement account…more precious than the economy itself. You are fearfully and wonderfully made according to the Psalms. That is...
Online Worship and Community Check-Ins
Sunday, March 29 at 10:30am
This Sunday we will once again be worshiping together online using Zoom