I've been thinking about...

...the stage in Fellowship Hall.

For anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, you simply have to run over to Fellowship Hall (I mean it, run, don’t walk; you don’t want to miss this!) immediately after service and see the marvelous difference it makes in that space to have our stage completely reclaimed!
Those big beautiful windows letting all that golden natural light pour in! The openness and warmth that it brings! All the stories of Christmas Pageants Past that it brought back for so many! It is a like a whole new Fellowship Hall...or perhaps more accurately more like the old Fellowship Hall.

Many thanks are due to Kathy and Steve, Kathy and Ed (and Ed’s brother), and Del for the hard work they put in removing the built-in closets and restoring our stage. It was no easy job, and we owe them a tremendous debt of gratitude.

I’ve been thinking about the stage because it is such a striking metaphor for the work we are doing through our interim time together — breaking down old walls, rediscovering old stories and lost treasures from our past, letting new light shine into the church in exciting and glorious ways, looking out into the world to discover the places we are called to serve, and preparing this church (building, people, and all) for the brightness of the future that God has in store.

Yours in the journey, Rev. Brian