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            This weekend, June 30-July 2, delegates and visitors to General Synod 34 will gather in Indianapolis, IN to do the business of the United Church of Christ and to look toward the future.             Greenbelt Community Church is a member of the Protestant denomination known as The United Church of Christ (UCC).  We are

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

     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.            

   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

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

            This is one of my favorite times of the year.  It is cherry blossom time at the Tidal Basin.  On the day this meditation will be posted the cherry blossoms will be at their peak bloom.  In all likelihood we will have begun our day before dawn to walk around the trees and take

            Today is the International Day of the Woman.  The United Church of Christ (through its predecessor denominations and since it officially became the UCC) has contributed to the history (herstory) of women.  I’d like to introduce you to some of our spiritual groundbreakers.             “The United Church of Christ honors the life of Antoinette