First, a “Hello!”. . . Summer is a time of a lot of comings and goings and this week, I want to highlight a new arrival to our church staff! Lynne Lorentsen has been hired to serve as our Interim Director of Communications, filling the big shoes left by Beth Evarts....
As I write this, I am sitting beside the spillway at Montreat Conference Center in North Carolina, just below the waters of Lake Susan - a small manmade lake, fed by a creek that flows down from the surrounding mountains. As I write this, I can hear the gentle flow of...
Summer Sermon Series A few months ago, I was talking with someone about their life and faith, and as part of the conversation, I began to wonder what makes this person tick, in the sense of their personal theology and system of beliefs. Was there some passage of...
Every summer for many years, people from Bedford Presbyterian Church have packed up their tools and laced up their work boots, hopping in cars and trucks and driving about three hours for a week at Mission at the Eastward in Farmington, Maine. This summer, we are...
I cannot remember a time in my life when church was not part of my life. Some of my earliest memories are of Vine Street Christian Church in Nashville, Tennessee - the church where my parents met while singing in the choir, the church where my grandparents served in...
Around four years ago, the Session of Bedford Presbyterian Church put together a job description for a new staff role: Director of Communications. At the time we were discussing this opportunity to expand our ministry of communications within the church and beyond the...
As of this coming Sunday, May 18, it will have been one year since we officially celebrated the 275th Anniversary of Bedford Presbyterian Church. Last May 19, with great rejoicing and thanksgiving, we offered praise to God for our milestone anniversary and the great...
On Monday, May 5, we received the official word that our Bright Hope for Tomorrow solar panel array was ready to be switched on. It was a cloudy and rainy day, but - at about 11 AM - the technicians from Revision Energy were on site with our own Pete Dalrymple, and...