This coming Sunday is Father’s Day, a day to say thank you to those who have been or who have served as father figures in our lives.  I was fortunate to know both my father and one of my grandfathers.  Those men made an impression on my life, shaping me to what I am… Read More »

It was a colorful weekend for GCCUCC June 3-4, 2023. Greenbelt Community Church members wore orange Sunday in observance of National Gun Violence Awareness Month and Wear Orange Weekend and the church is also spotlighted in Orange! #WearOrange #EndGunViolence And we showed up and supported the 2nd annual Greenbelt Pride Festival.

            Over the years I have learned the wisdom of “taking a break”, taking a day off and going somewhere I haven’t been in a long time or have never seen.  The object isn’t to meet up with someone, or go shopping, or sit in an audience of some kind.  The object is have a… Read More »

            This past Sunday the color red was visibly present in our sanctuary as we celebrated with joy the birthing story of the church, Pentecost Sunday.  We also took the time to remember those who gave their lives in service of their country because it was also Memorial Day weekend.             This coming week is… Read More »

     Memorial Day Weekend is later this week.  It is the “unofficial time of summer”, the weekend when white shoes and white clothes are “authorized”, the weekend of crowded roads leading to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and beyond to the ocean, the time to get the grill out, the weekend for the Indianapolis 500.            … Read More »

“Tis the season of pomp and circumstance.”  Currently and for the next several weeks graduation activities will fill the calendars.  In two weeks, our youngest grandson, five years old, will be graduating from Preschool.  His next adventure will be Kindergarten which meets at the “regular” elementary school.  A significant passage.  Our granddaughter graduates from elementary… Read More »

            My heart is full.  I had the privilege to spend the weekend with a group of women from Greenbelt Community Church in a Women’s Retreat at the Bishop Claggett Retreat Center in Buckeystown, Maryland.  We laughed, we cried, we told stories, we listened to one another, we took time for ourselves, we spent time… Read More »

   What is your fear number on a scale of 1-10?  It appears that for some of our neighbors their number is somewhere close to 93 out of that scale.  In other words, off the chart.             It is not difficult to exceed the 1-10 scale of anxiety.  There is plenty of press coverage of… Read More »

It’s springtime and the bees are active.  I need to swoosh away carpenter bees when I come in and out the door and we need to pay attention to the more aggressive bees that nest in the ground. BEE alert!  It is also BEE time at Greenbelt Community Church!  Springtime usually signals Heifer Project Time… Read More »

            What does it mean to be a resurrection people?  That’s what we in the church are called to be.  That’s how we tell the Good News of Easter all year long.  But what does it mean to you?             I think it means we have a different way to look at the situations in… Read More »