First Notes – October 2021
As I wrote last month, the virus continues to drive the story. Church school and Confirmation classes have begun, which gives the sense that some …
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First Notes – September 2021
The virus continues to drive the story and as the virus changes, so does the story. With the emergence of the Delta variant of virus, …
First Notes – August 2021
As I wrote in last month’s newsletter, the time would be coming soon when many (if not all) aspects of church life would return. At …
First Notes – July 2021
Sometime in February of this year, I had stumbled across this quote that summed up many of the aspects of life under COVID-19: “Everything takes …
First Notes June 2021
As I mentioned in May’s front page article, the changes in guidelines and restrictions for in-person worship would be hard to predict. That wasn’t exactly …
First Notes – May 2021
At this writing, we are roughly at the halfway point of the Great Fifty Days of Easter, which (as I’ve shared with you a number …
First Notes – April 2021
By the time the Chapel Chimes reaches you, a number of you will already know that we have added in-person worship services to the lineup …
First Notes – March 2021
It is hard for me to escape the fact that March will the one-year anniversary of the time that everything started shutting down due to …
First Notes – February 2021
As we enter the second month of the new year, I find it a good time to both reflect on where we have been and …
First Notes – January 2021
Like many of you, I am eager to put the year 2020 in the rear-view mirror. I don’t have a crystal ball and no one …