“For John 3:17 tells us in no uncertain terms that God did not send Jesus in order to condemn the world…but rather…in order that the world might be saved through him. God sent Jesus…to save us from ourselves, from our own worst impulses, from our tendency to divide rather than unify, from our penchant to seek only to save ourselves rather than to do the harder work of loving one another…”
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‘Pic(k)’ of the Week for the week of March 12, 2018 Well…as you can see from the pictures of late the weather is slowing us down just a bit. However life goes on unabated as we continue to prep for a wonderful season to come. And as you can also see from the pictures, the peas we planted
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‘Pic(k)’ of the Week for the week of March 5, 2018 Well! Our early optimism seems to have ‘melted a bit’ in the dump of heavy wet snow we got this past week! And it seems as though another storm is on the way…oh well… But it is still warm inside the greenhouses when the sun is out
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‘Pic(k)’ of the Week Welcome to the ‘Faithful Farm and Food Initiative of Patterson Community Church’. You may have noticed that last summer that we began putting in greenhouses and small vegetable gardens next to our Fellowship Hall. This was done for a number of reasons including growing healthy and all-natural produce for our Food
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First installment of: R³ (Radical Religious Ramblings) This bit of ‘bloggery’ is intended to provide a forum to consider those things that ‘polite religious folks’ often do not wish to go near. Posted here are various musings on the current state of the institutional church from the perspective of a small town, small church pastor
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R³ (or ‘R cubed’) stands for “Radical Religious Ramblings” This bit of ‘bloggery’ is intended to provide a forum to consider those things that ‘polite religious folks’ often do not wish to go near. Posted here are various musings on the current state of the institutional church from the perspective of a small town, small
Below is information about the Food Pantry and Thrift Shop. After is a listing of related blog posts. Click on the individual titles to read them. Food Pantry Available to any in need within our community, the food pantry program of the church has been serving our community for several decades under the competent and
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… the love of our God is far, far greater than our ability to discourage or lessen it…and the forgiveness and mercy God extends towards each one of us comes from the very nature of this God of love…and also, and perhaps quite importantly so, the wrathful and condemning images and understandings so many ascribe to our God are a distortion of and rebuke of the true loving essence of this one we worship and seek to follow after.
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Below is a list of our upcoming or recent events. Click on the title to get more information. Photo by Chris Lawton on Unsplash [display-posts category=”Our Events” image_size=”thumbnail” posts_per_page=”10″ include_excerpt=”true” excerpt_length=”20″]
‘Third Sunday Lord’s Table’ In October of 2017 the church began a series seeking to engage pressing social and faith issues through an immersion experience of the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. Taking place on the third Sunday of each month the service of worship will be centered around and focused on a specific topic
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