Posts by Angel Owens
The Ninth Inning
Dear friends, Thirteen months ago, I was sitting in the stands at a spring training baseball game in Florida, oblivious of what was about to happen. From baseball to being…
Read MoreThine is the Glory: ELW 376 A Hymn of Easter Triumph!
By Rob Durocher Minister of Worship and the Arts, Deacon There are some hymns that just make our worship experience on Easter Sunday complete. Among these are the hymns Jesus…
Read MoreO Sacred Head Now Wounded- A Hymn for Holy Week
By Rob Durocher Minister of Worship and the Arts, Deacon (Evangelical Lutheran Worship #351) O sacred Head, now wounded, with grief and shame weighed down, Now scornfully surrounded with thorns,…
Read MoreHealthy Choices at the Child Development Center: Melissa Lamb joins the CDC as new cook
By Susan Shinn Turner Just as the Outdoor Learning Environment will provide children with fresh air and exercise, the St. John’s Child Development Center’s Advisory Committee wants to make children…
Read MoreThe Other Side of the Wall Study with Pastor Munther Isaac
By Susan Shinn Turner More than two dozen members of St. John’s and residents of five other states participated in a recent four-week Bible study, The Other Side of the…
Read MoreI Want Jesus to Walk With Me (ELW 325): A Song for Our Lenten Journey
By Rob Durocher Minister or Worship and the Arts, Deacon Deep from the history of the African American Spiritual comes a song without a known author or a known source…
Read MoreBradley Chestnut Accepts New Call in Bluffton S.C.
By Susan Shinn Turner Bradley Chestnut, St. John’s contemporary worship leader since 2016, will become worship leader/pastor at Live Oak Church in Bluffton, SC, near Hilton Head. He starts March…
Read MoreThe Power of Words: Jeanie Moore publishes memoirs during quarantine
By Susan Shinn Turner During the great pandemic of 2020, Jeanie Moore realized she needed to do something both for her mental health and her spiritual health. So she wrote…
Read MoreA Love Song for the Ages
Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heaven to earth come down; fix in us thy humble dwelling; all thy faithful mercies crown! Jesus, thou art all compassion, pure, unbounded…
Read MoreThe Feast of St. Valentine
By Rob Durocher, Minister of Worship and the Arts Long before Brach’s and Whitman’s began selling heart-shaped boxes of candy and Hallmark cards and a dozen roses and ‘let me…
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