Here’s a flashback to December 2018…Every year as Thanksgiving ends and Advent begins, I have the best of intentions. I promise myself, this year will be different and I recently ran across a Facebook post that beautifully articulated my annual Advent resolution.

It is with thanksgiving and expectation we, your 2022 Council, write this month. Fall has brought many to worship, with our attendance averaging close to 40 each week.

There is something about the fall season that triggers a great deal of anxiety within me. I am sure it is a mix of the new school year,

Ever wonder what the larger story the Bible tells? Or who God of the Bible is?

Somehow, we have come to the end of our summer months and worship, and I, like many of you, am in awe of how fast summer 2022 went as well as a bit overwhelmed by the calendar…

Healing. The SEMN Synod focused on healing this first synod assembly in two years due to the pandemic.

Nothing has been easy about these last few years, nor these months as we rediscover our work together.

The pandemic has been tough on everyone.

Questions are a normal aspect of daily life. I will admit having two, entirely too curious, seven year olds has driven this truth home, but questions, regardless of our age swirl around us and perhaps nowhere more accutely than in our faith life…

Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.