by Lisa Stanger | Dec 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Isaiah 11:1-10 and Matthew 3:1-12 ? All of us who are parents have had the joy and the absolute terror of being asked by our young children, ?Where do babies come from??? As intelligent as we are, the question always comes when we least expect it?, like when we are...
by Lisa Stanger | Dec 7, 2013 | Real People: Stories from Our Members
As an introverted artist, I spend lots of time by myself.? I find the spiritual in many places ? especially outside ? and try to put some of the Spirit in my artwork. For me, this one-way communication is comfortable and comforting. I am also a wife and a mother....
by Lisa Stanger | Dec 4, 2013 | Real People: Stories from Our Members
Bishop John Shelby Spong?is who ? or what ? first brought me to First United.? Not literally. I mean, he didn?t pick me up in a Prius and bring me. But it was an announcement in the local paper promoting a visit to First United by Bishop Spong that first caught my...
by Lisa Stanger | Dec 1, 2013 | Real People: Stories from Our Members
If you had told me one day I?d be writing something about what has kept me attending a church I would have told you ?No way!? and yet here I am.? To know why this is significant I think it?s important to know a little about me and the path that lead me here.? My...
