As we continue to approach Christmas Day, many of us experience an increasingly joyful state! We also welcome and embrace those for whom this season is more of a “Blue Christmas”, filled with sentiments of sadness and loneliness. We make room for the heaviness of grief, loss, broken relationships and lack.  Ours is a brave space… Read More »

Last Sunday, we gathered after our worship for our first Selah Sanctuary, a time to bravely share and to consider the magnitude of what each person brought to this conversation. SELAH is a Hebrew word meaning to pause and think of that. SANCTUARY is a place of refuge and safety. We paused and sat together, in… Read More »

I hope you had a lovely and meaningful Veteran’s day on Tuesday; and that you were able to share your gratitude for someone’s service in the armed forces or currently in active duty. As you know, we are hosting the Social Supper on Monday, November 17 at 6:30PM.  Congregational Life and Communications, has shared these inviting… Read More »

I will host a “Selah Sanctuary” immediately following worship on Sunday, November 16th to pause and prayerfully consider together, in community. We will share and listen to each other for about an hour. I hope you were able to vote yesterday.  It still matters. Bob of GILA and campaign volunteers! This Sunday, November 9th, as we approach Veterans’ Sunday, all veterans… Read More »

Remember to “fall back” for Daylight Savings time! November 2nd, we observe ALL-SAINTS Sunday.  This worship will be a time for us to remember and celebrate those who have trod a path for us and moved on from struggle to reward. We will experience an invocation by Carla Crompton and Diane Wogaman will join me in the Communion Liturgy as… Read More »

This Sunday, October 26th is the second in this Stewardship Season! Our worship services will include “A Moment for Stewardship” featuring individual sharing about why members appreciate Greenbelt Community Church and choose to generously pledge and financially sustain this compassionate community. Yolanda Burnett will offer “A Moment for Stewardship”, on this coming Sunday. We welcome… Read More »

This Sunday, October 19th begins our Stewardship Season! Our worship services will include “A Moment for Stewardship” featuring individual sharing about why members appreciate this community and choose to generously pledge. I hope you will consider whether this is the time to make your voice heard about all things, great and small, that compel you to financially sustain this… Read More »

I am sending out last week’s edition which I simply could not complete, with the ever-changing dynamics of any vibrant community of faith. Have a retrospective look at last week’s Pastor’s Pulse and do not hesitate to offer comments, if you wish to share anything. We regret that the “virtual sanctuary” was unable to see… Read More »

We are coming into the third message in the “God, Self and Neighbor” sermon series. October 5th is World Communion Sunday. On World Communion Sunday, we receive the offering that supports ministries of justice and compassion, with one-third of the offering given to the Council for American Indian Ministries. The remaining two-thirds supports UCC justice ministries.  During… Read More »

On Sunday, following our worship service, I was able to join the Coffee Hour for a couple of brief conversations before scurrying off to an afternoon commitment to deliver a homily at the Potomac Association of African American Women in Ministry’s end-of-summer convening. There was food, fellowship, prayer, music and laughter.  We enjoyed an anointed… Read More »