Category Archives: What We Seek

Good Morning Church! 7.25.2021 Jesus in the Moment

Good Morning Church! 7.25.2021 Jesus in the Moment Good Morning Church! Walk the Walk Update (calumet.org/giving/walkthewalk) Mission of the Month: Notebooks for CPC in the Hill Opening Prayer “When Peace Like a River” (ELW #785 Sung by Al LaPorte) Discovery … Continue reading

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Good Morning Church! 4.25.2021 Easter 4: Burning Hearts (after the missing year…)

Good Morning Church! 4.25.2021 Easter 4: Burning Hearts (after the missing year…) Good Morning Church! (On Location in Maine…) Opening Prayer GMC from Judy Smith of Camp Calumet (calumet.org) Food Challenge for SSKP update “Alleluia, Jesus is Risen!” (ELW #377, … Continue reading

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Good Friday, Church! 4.02.2021

Good Friday, Church! 4.02.2021 Welcome Confession and Forgiveness Isaiah 53:4-6 Message “When Pain of the World Surrounds Us” (ELW #704 Sung by Al LaPorte) The Passion According to the Gospel of John (Readers: Ken Hartley and Elizabeth Palmeri) Bidding Prayers … Continue reading

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Good Morning Church! 2.21.2021 Seeing and Being Seen

Good Morning Church! 2.21.2021 Seeing and Being Seen Good Morning Church! from St. Paul Annual Congregational Mtg Welcome & Opening Prayer “Kyrie” (ELW #151 Sung by Al LaPorte) Discovery Time John 9:1-41 (Read by Kim Meadows) Message “Christ Be Our … Continue reading

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School: the next pivot

(Originally shared in an enews to St. Paul 8/20/2020, slightly adapted and updated here.) It is back to school for students, families, faculty and staff. Whether or not you have a student or a teacher in the family or have … Continue reading

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Good Morning Church! 8/30/2020 Gain / Taking up the cross

Good Morning Church! 8/30/2020 Gain / Taking up the cross Welcome Peggy Time: Weather Prayer of St. Francis “You Have Come Down to the Lakeshore” (ELW #817) Andrew Time: Gain Tammie: Discovery Time Matt 16:21-26 Message “Lift High the Cross” … Continue reading

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Good Morning Church! 6/28/2020

Good Morning Church! 6/28/2020 “Welcome” Sunday Welcome “All Are Welcome” (ELW #641) Discovery Time: Welcome On Location Jeremiah 28:5-9 Matthew 10:10-42 Message Conversation with Knute Ogren, Director of Development, Camp Calumet (Calumet.org/give) “Hosea” (Copyright 1972, 1980 The Benedictine Foundation Of … Continue reading

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Getting Back to… Normal?

One of the phrases I have been struggling with hearing over these past few weeks since the shut-down began in March is the longing of “getting back to normal.” I get it. It is a very human impulse to establish … Continue reading

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Good Morning Church! Sunday March 22, 2020

This morning’s Sunrise from Saybrook Point Inn… “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;     I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.” (Psalm 32: 8) Good morning Church from our home to yours… Discovery Time: … Continue reading

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One Team. Your Team! PSA from Old Saybrook

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