by Lisa Stanger | Nov 30, 2020 | Everyday Announcements, Sunday Announcements
Advent has officially begun. Do you have everything you need? Of course not. We are in the middle of a pandemic, and things are not as they should be. As I think about my own Advent this year, I’m reminded of the quandary I’m often in when packing for a trip,...
by Lisa Stanger | Nov 16, 2020 | Everyday Announcements, Sunday Announcements
Over the past few months I have shared a couple of times that something I have been doing when I have some free brain-space is learning to paint. To be more precise, I have been painting as an absolute beginner and amateur; I’m not enrolled in an art...
by Lisa Stanger | Nov 9, 2020 | Everyday Announcements, Sunday Announcements
As Martin and I prepare for the movers to arrive and move the entire contents of our Newton house to our house in Bloomington, we must make decisions about what we will move ourselves. We must decide which items we will need for the next week or so, and we must decide...
by Lisa Stanger | Nov 2, 2020 | Everyday Announcements, Sunday Announcements
Dear First United Family, If I had to take a guess, I am assuming that many of you are holding onto some level of anxiety today. Perhaps it’s tomorrow’s election. Maybe it’s our ongoing pandemic. It very well could be a combination of many things. I...
by Lisa Stanger | Oct 26, 2020 | Everyday Announcements, Sunday Announcements
When I served as an Interim Associate Conference Minister in the Indiana-Kentucky Conference of the UCC, I was the point person in relating to congregations as they were making the transition from one called minister to the next. As you have experienced, this is...
by Lisa Stanger | Oct 19, 2020 | Everyday Announcements, Sunday Announcements
In the Sending Forth portion of our worship service yesterday, I shared a “life philosophy” that has stuck with me years after I first heard it. Usually such statements are rather elaborate, attempting to encompass a broad spectrum of ideas. This one is...
