A Word About Outreach
Greetings, friends! As 2020 concluded, the Outreach Committee discerned the distributions of our Outreach funds. Because of your faithfulness, we exceeded 100% of our outreach budget in 2020. Combined with […]
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February Special Offering: Week of Compassion
Dear Friends, As the relief, refugee, and development mission fund of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Week of Compassion works with partners to alleviate suffering around the world.We know […]
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A Word from Pastor Nathan
Dear Friends, On Monday, a church leader and I shared good and generative conversation. This person said, “We’ve changed a lot in the past couple of years.” Those are true […]
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A Word from Pastor Nathan
Washington Avenue, Beloved: One of the things that inspires me to wake up and run on this new-fangled, self-powered, beast-of-burden treadmill is that an audiobook is waiting for me. I […]
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A Word from Pastor Nathan
Dear Friends: This week, the Rev. Dr. Shelly Matthews, Professor of New Testament at Brite Divinity School, and I are co-teaching a course, entitled Transitions in Ministry. We ’re zooming […]
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A Word from Pastor Nathan
Dear Friends: One of the characteristics that drew me to Washington Avenue Christian Church was the legacy of strong, committed lay leadership. Here ’s one example: Though we ’ve had […]
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A Word from Pastor Nathan
Church, I have a confession to make: I bought a treadmill. I enjoy running, but cold and slippery don’t work well for me, and I let my gym membership expire […]
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A Word from Pastor Nathan
Last night, we held our regularly scheduled Elder and Board meetings via Zoom. December meetings have an ominous item of new business: next year’s budget. Earlier this year, the Stewardship […]
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A Word from the Rev. Alan Dicken and the Ohio Region
Dear Friends at Washington Avenue Christian Church, Thank you so much for considering this year’s Christmas offering. Across the entire denomination, churches and individuals give to the Christmas offering to […]
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A Word from Pastor Nathan
When looking at the Revised Common Lectionary for a text for Wednesday’s theAlternative, Psalm 100 drew my eye and ire. Whoever edited the psalms included this preface, “A Psalm of […]