Dear Friends, I am writing to you from McMenamins in Troutdale after a minister’s retreat and a couple of days of hanging out with Joe after. We came to the…
Dear Friends, It has been more than three years now that we as a family have been here in Klamath Falls. It does not seem that long ago. The sunsets…
Dear Friends, It doesn’t feel like a week has swooshed by so quickly. Joe and I switched our Sundays to provide messages during Easter. It has me getting ready for…
Dear Friends, Have you ever thought about old wounds and how they mess with our lives now? Especially spiritual wounds. Those can come about for almost anybody inflicted by some…
Dear Friends, It is evaluation time again for your pastors. There are evaluations for both Joe and I available at the church on the entry table. Feel free to come…
Dear Friends, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a sermon called “Shattered Dreams.” It was near the end of his life, and many hurdles had still yet to be overcome. There…
Dear Friends, There is a lot I have to say “good-bye” to in order to live a more plain and simple life. But plain and simple is what we aspire to,…
Dear Friends, We as Quakers talk about “plain speech”, about not saying more than needs to be said, and saying what is said in as plain a way as…
Dear Friends, I had an issue with my email last week sending something from a member to an unknown place (trash, spam?). Just as a normal rule of thumb, if…
Dear Friends, Wouldn’t it be wonderful if hearing from God clearly came very easily to everyone? All the time? That we knew right away the right decision to make? But…