27 Mar Sunday Service and 75th Anniversary Celebration
Join us 5/7/23 at 10am for special 75th birthday service. Live music includes bagpipes & bluegrass. Potluck lunch, kids activites and more follow service....
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08 Jun Minding the Gap – Unity
Minding the Gap – Unity John 17:20-26 Calvary Presbyterian Church Gene Kendall, Jr. [audio m4a="https://calvarypres.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/June-2-2019-sermon.m4a"][/audio] Do you ever get so tired of hearing a phrase, repeated so often, that it’s not only annoying but if you hear it one more time, you think your head might explode? I was reading...
23 May Picnics, Hotdogs, & Gratitude
The unofficial start of summer is here! Picnics and parades, flags and fireworks, hot dogs and hamburgers, watermelon and waterslides—this weekend we will remember and celebrate our freedom, our country, our family and friends, and our many, many blessings. Memorial Day reminds us that no matter...
08 Nov The Gift of Redemption
This past weekend I was invited to attend Shabbat at a local synagogue as the guest of one of the members. It was the first Shabbat since the tragic events in Pittsburgh the previous Saturday, and it was a privilege to show my support for...
30 Aug Hospitality, Imperfection, Abundance….Community
I have been thinking a good bit about community lately. Because human beings are created with a need to belong, community is vital. We cannot, in fact, learn who we are or what is authentic for us without community, beginning with the first community we...
06 Jun Dare to Reach Out and Help Your Neighbor
Last week I wrote about the ongoing challenges we face as individuals and as a congregation to meet the needs of our neighbors. It just so happened that after I wrote that post, two additional incidents occurred. One of them involved a middle-aged man who...
01 May Community with Frosting on Top
Are you ever so excited or happy or overjoyed that you think you might burst? The weekend just past was like that at Calvary. A wedding, a third-grader receiving a Bible, voting on new Elders, celebrating Calvary’s 70th birthday, participating in the ordination of one...
12 Apr Stepping into the Chaos Together
In the Old Testament, Joshua 3 records the story of the Israelites crossing the Jordan River into the Promised Land. The crossing occurs at harvest time, when the river routinely overflows its banks. The people will have to cross the swollen waters, a detail that...
11 Jan The Gift of Presence
I sit in my office this morning, fingers poised over the computer keyboard, awaiting words and inspiration and more words. Because nothing is coming, at least not yet, I am suddenly aware of the loud cacophony outside my window: horns honking, a man yelling, something...