Rev. Megan
Berkowitz
Rev. Amy
Clark Feldman
Pastor Megan
March 28 2025
Dear Church,
We’re drawing to the close of our Stewardship season for this year, and we’ll mark Stewardship Sunday in worship this week with a testimony and a focus in scripture and sermon on generosity. Stewardship season is always a call to discern what generosity looks like for each of us in this time, this place, this community; yet it’s also a time to celebrate generosity. Each one of us in the community builds our church out of our generosity, and enjoys the gifts of generosity from not just the others around us but also the many past generations whose faith, tradition, and gifts we have inherited in the church in so many ways.
We live it out every day, in every aspect of our shared lives. The children and youth learn from Sunday school and Youth Group to be generous with their time for others who are in need, and generous in their listening to and learning from each other. Bible study shares generously of ideas and questions; Deacons help us to share generously of our care and concern for all among us who are in need (and opening ourselves to such care can be a generous act, as well!); Wellspring and Java Gents share generously in food and faith and laughter. I’m sure you can offer more examples from your experiences, as well.
So, this Sunday in worship, we can celebrate that we’ve come this far by faith, and that in faith we can make space for ourselves and future generations to live in the gift of that generosity. As we close this season, I encourage you to read the Stewardship letter [here] from Chair Kent Wittler and the rest of the Stewardship Committee; to discern on your own or with your family how you can be generous this year; and to fill out the pledge card [here] and the gifts and talents inventory [here], if you haven’t already. Finally, I encourage you to come to church on Sunday so we can celebrate a community built on generosity, together.
With Lenten Peace,
Pastor Megan
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Rev. Megan Berkowitz
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May 9, 2025 I had a lot of interest in the prayer structure I shared during last Sunday’s worship, so I wanted to write it out for you here. If you’re feeling like you’re not sure how to pray or what to say, sometimes a little scaffolding can help get you started. Don’t think that this is the ‘right’ way to pray though — any way to pray that leads you to open your heart to God is the right way! Learn More - From Our Pastors: May 2, 2025Rev. Megan Berkowitz
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April 25, 2025 On Easter morning, we sang the hymn “Now the Green Blade Rises,” with its refrain: “Love is come again like wheat that rises green.” While it raises questions for me every year about how much pronunciation has changed in the last hundred years (did been/green and again/lain really rhyme?), it so beautifully captures the confluence of Easter and the coming of Spring in the Northern hemisphere. Learn More - From Our Pastors: April 18, 2025Rev. Megan Berkowitz
April 18, 2025 Throughout Lent, we have been Making Space: for compassion, humility, discernment, generosity, and prayer. As we move from yesterday evening’s Maundy Thursday Tenebrae service, sharing around the table and recognizing the coming darkness, to Sunday morning’s joyful worship, we are given one last, sacred opportunity to reflect in this year’s Lenten season. Learn More
