A pastoral letter to a congregation breaking a rule (kind of), OR breaking ground
Mark Rupp has been pastoring at Columbus Mennonite for nearly a month and this coming Sunday is his installation service. Mark will preach, and Lois Kaufmann, our Central District Conference Minister, will be here and will lead this part of the service. For first time pastors, installation is usually accompanied…
A baby and a new front door
For the last half year we have been plodding along in the creation of a new church website, working with the good folks at LightSky who were recommended to us through Central District Conference. Because the church staff has worked on it little by little and watched it slowly take…
This ordinary time
Although we haven’t been following the lectionary readings for Sunday worship this summer, it is worth remembering that this is the season of Ordinary Time. This is the space between Pentecost and Advent in which we are neither immediately anticipating Christ’s birth nor death. Easter has happened. Pentecost has happened….
Social realism
There’s a new ministerium of pastors forming in Columbus to meet monthly to think creatively about various ministry realities, organized by a couple ministers with the Episcopal diocese. Love those Episcopalians. Today over lunch we met at the Columbus Museum of Art and were given a tour through the Modern…
Six Scriptures
We are nearing the end of our Twelve Scriptures summer worship series. After this Sunday, focused on the Beatitudes of Matthew 5, we have only one Sunday remaining. It has been a rich time whose learnings can hopefully keep informing the mission of the congregation long after the series ends. …
