Yesterday I went to Super Saturday [a regional UCC event], and Ian H. (support pastor while Molly was on medical leave) asked if this meant I was officially UCC and I said no, though when I saw him I suspected he would think that. [ He used to nudge me about officially joining FCS.Introducing me to the person he had been chatting with, he referred ( Read more... )

I knew to get there early -- quarter of and the place already felt as full as (if not fuller) than it does on any given Sunday after everyone's arrived ( Read more... )

I "worked from home" today -- and I did do actual work. I was on email from 9-5 (okay, more like 9:15-5, but I also didn't take a dedicated lunch hour, so whatevs), and with tomorrow's speaker being snow-delayed, there was legit work to do. No biggie, and I felt appropriately snowday vibe-ful ( Read more... )

facebook this morning ( Read more... )

Lectionary at morning prayer this morning switched up the Gospel -- John instead of Luke (we've been doing narrative arcs in Isaiah and Luke) -- and The Inclusive Bible doesn't always mark chapters in an entirely intuitive way, so I ended up reading from the wrong chapter, but it still went well. (And I really felt minimal stress about it ( Read more... )

So, at Coffee Hour today, Support Pastor Ian and I talked about my feeling cranky about his having changed stuff about the Rest and Bread service the other week -- he said that he'd had a lot else going on and so in his anxiety he was really trying to follow the list Keith had left, genuinely wanting to do it as it had been done, very conscious ( Read more... )

Shortly after he arrived before service last night, Ian H. apologized for having failed to send me the Associate Membership information he had said he would look up for me.

So just now I got an email from him:Elizabeth ( Read more... )

Before service tonight, Keith joked about the impending liturgical season of Halloween.  I said I would recuse myself from Rest and Bread for that season ;)
He suggested candy corn for Communion and I said I'd never been a big fan of candy corn -- but if the Communion bread were a big slab of chocolate, I would be into that.  Keith [wow, I ( Read more... )

Before service tonight, Ian H. asked me, "Elizabeth, have you considered," and I was certain that sentence was going to end with "seminary" or "ordained ministry," because it always does, but instead it ended, "becoming an Associate Member here?"  It would recognize that my primary affiliation is with another church, but it would also ritualize the ( Read more... )

Today was Regathering Sunday at FCS.

Opening Hymn "Come, All You People"
(I'm used to just singing "come and praise your Maker," but this had a Trinitarian formation -- "the Most High," "the Savior," "the Spirit.")

Anthem: "Here I Am, Lord" (in a slightly different tune than I'm used to, but definitely the same words)

Scripture ReadingsIsaiah 42 ( Read more... )