Dear Caldwell Family: Happy midweek to you all. To all those kids and youth and parents who get out of school this week, congratulations! Let the summer begin! Thanks to those who responded to last Sunday’s sermon. One of those responses echoed a thought that entered – but unfortunately exited just as quickly – my …
Dear Caldwell family: We have much to look forward to this Sunday: – Don’t forget we will have a covered dish lunch together immediately after worship. Bring a dish and join in. – We will start a four-week class for Newcomers (new members, prospective new members, curious friends and all others welcome) at 9:45 in …
Caldwell Family: It’s good to be back in the office and catch up. The conference I attended last week on multicultural churches was fascinating and full of ideas. I look forward to telling you more Sunday and in weeks to come. Thanks to Leslie, Danny, Elizabeth and others for looking out for things here. For now, …
Dear Caldwell Family: Greetings from Chicago, where I am taking part in a fascinating PCUSA conference on multicultural churches. As America moves closer and closer to being a minority majority nation (where, together, minorities make up the largest portion of the population) , its churches must understand how to worship, serve and nurture people of …
Dear Caldwell Family: I trust your week is off to a good start. Just wanted to remind everyone about the chance we have tomorrow to welcome the families of the Bilingual Preschool to Caldwell. There is an open house beginning at 9:30 a.m. Drop by, if you can, to see the gleaming new classrooms and …
Caldwell Family: Life is “good busy” here and I wanted to give you a mid-week update with some more information and reminders of some great opportunities to participate in the life of the church. In Sunday’s sermon, I mentioned the festival the faculty and parents of the Central Avenue Bilingual Preschool will hold on Wednesday, …
Dear Caldwell Family: It’s been said that God’s church lives out of both memory and vision. This week I had the privilege of speaking with Caldwell’s oldest member, Elise Hood, who is 100 years old. She had been in the hospital but is better and has returned to a center where her needs are cared …
Dear Caldwell Family: Tomorrow is Mother’s Day and two families will mark the occasion with an even more important milestone – the baptism of their children. What a great day for Caldwell and the church worldwide as the Body of Christ expands. It so happens that the post-resurrection saying of Christ we will be considering …
Caldwell Family: Grace and Peace to you …. Christians have been greeting each other that way for 2000 years, including the greeting the risen Christ gave the disciples as recorded in John 20. But was it just a greeting – a passing “Hi. How are you?” Or, was Christ’s passing of the peace that day …
Caldwell Family: The comic Gracie Allen once said, “Never put a period where God has put a comma.” In other words, we never know where the story of life is going, but, in Christ, its divine author has promised a happy ending. Such is our celebration during Eastertide. As I reflect on the busy-ness of …
