The Virginia United Methodist Conference is taking place in Roanoke today through Saturday. The theme this year is Moving Forward in God’s Mission based on Matthew 28:18-20. Bruen Chapel’s Harry Elanko will be our lay delegate and our outgoing and incoming pastors will be there as well. Please pray for both lay and clergy delegates […]
It was great to have Rosemary Welch with us today to preach on the trinity, one of the more complex and mysterious aspects of the Christian faith. What does “God in three persons, blessed trinity” mean to you and your faith? How do you understand this? Here is a meditation by the Rev. Dr. Safiyah […]
Thanks to everyone who came out on Sunday to send Pastor Ruth Burgess off to retirement in style. It was a great time to celebrate the birth of the church and the retirement of a faithful servant of the Lord who we have been blessed to called pastor for 11 years. Check out the pictures […]
Thanks to John F. Holman of Silver Spring, MD, we have a beautiful Little Library Box set up right outside our main church doors. Finished with a good book? Bring a copy to share with the neighborhood. Or pick a new book to read just in time for summer. We look forward to enjoying this […]
Earth Day was Monday the 22nd, but this special day has gotten less attention than usual thanks to Easter being so late this year. But taking care of the earth is important and Biblical. Over the course of Lent, a small group of us studied and discussed Psalms after church. In one of our sessions […]
Easter Greetings to all of you. Going through my mother’s effects since her death on April 9th, I’ve found some treasures. Here’s a short reflection that my now late mother wrote several years ago for a Lenten Devotional Booklet published by Westminster Canterbury where she lived out her last years. It represents well, I think, […]
Yesterday, our Staff Parish Relations Chair Rob Higginbotham announced that Bruen Chapel will be welcoming Dr. Don Ferris-McCann as pastor this summer when Ruth Burgess retires. We are excited to welcome Dr. Ferris-McCann and his wife Lisa to our congregation and are grateful to our Methodist leaders for finding such a suitable match with a […]
Today is Transfiguration Sunday when we remember Jesus conferring with Moses and Elijah on a mountaintop. Those guys were so full of God’s radiance that they literally glowed. What about us? How can we as people today reflect Jesus’s light into a world filled with darkness and trouble? John 1:5 tells us that “The light […]
Ash Wednesday is the first day in the Christian season of Lent. We hope that you’ll join us for one of the two options for Ash Wednesday, which is March 6th: ☀️ Daytime (between 11am – 1pm) drop by the sanctuary for prayer and the gift of ashes ? Evening (7-8 pm) Ash Wednesday service During Lent, […]
As many of you know, United Methodists met over the weekend in St. Louis to determine a way forward on the inclusion of sexual minorities within the global church. The traditional plan won the day, meaning that the Book of Discipline retains bans on same-sex weddings and LGBTQIA clergy for now. For those who are […]