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Dear First Presbyterian Family, Lent will begin for us on Wednesday, March 2. I want to suggest three strategies for this season: Give Up, Give Out, or Give In. First, there is Give Up. People often give up such things as sweets or caffeine. Some people give up...

Dear First Presbyterian Family, Ground Hog Day is upon us! February 2 is the day where we “learn” if Spring is on the way or if we have six more weeks of Winter. Though February can be a brutal month for us (remember Snow-mageddon?), this month does mark a turn to...

Dear First Presbyterian Family, “And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: ‘Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.’ And he replied: ‘Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than...

NOVEMBER 2021 Dear First Presbyterian Family, “It is the Fourth Quarter, and we are all tired.” I heard this observation from a friend recently. The challenges included those related to jobs, children, and their activities, navigating some relationships, and normal...

SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER   Dear First Presbyterian Family, “The Lord is Good, a Stronghold in the Day of Trouble, and He Knows Those Who Take Refuge in Him” (Nahum 1:7). I have returned to this verse many times over the years. While it seems that we are now beyond...

AUGUST NEWSLETTER Dear First Presbyterian Family, Greetings!!! After a July sabbatical (hence a June-July issue), our newsletter returns. We began “Back to Church 2.0” on July 4. We returned to two services. We offer Summer Sunday School. We are mask optional. During...

OCTOBER NEWSLETTER   Dear First Presbyterian Family, “The Golden Rod is Yellow; the corn is turning brown; the trees in apple orchards with fruit are bending down. By all these lovely tokens, September days are here, with summer’s best of weather, and autumn’s...

Greetings First Presbyterian Family, “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.” Thus begins Ecclesiastes 3. Those words come to mind as I reflect on our upcoming month of May. We begin the month with the Kentucky Derby-a Rite of...

Greetings First Presbyterian Family, Sunday, March 22, 2020, we held our first recorded service for First Presbyterian Church during Shelter in Place. Ben Clifton directed and sang with the Ensemble Choir of Debbie and Dave Edling, Brenda Greer, and Paula and John...