Thoughts from
Rev. Dr. Tassie Green,
Interim Senior Pastor

Dear friends –

Last week for the kickoff of the Unity Initiative all-church activities following worship, more than 90 of you joined in learning and dialoguing together at tables. Running the next three weeks through Sunday, May 18, Unity Initiative is a lay-led initiative that grew out of Session’s desire to help the church move forward with energy and joy as we follow Jesus together. It focuses on Jesus’ prayer for unity for his disciples and for all believers to come—for us—in John 17:11-19.  Please join in this week for unity pastries & coffee, then conversations.  

We PICTURE YOU here! 

All-Church Unity Photo will be taken May 11 immediately AFTER Worship in the Sanctuary. Don’t miss it!

Group photo of congregation standing inside a church sanctuary.

Unity is a tricky thing. It does not mean we are all the same or that we agree. In fact, Jesus knew we would NOT agree, which is why he prays for us. In fact, Paul talks about our diversity as members of Christ’s body who are each given different gifts by God. Paul cast a vision for unity—based on our physical bodies—of how all the members can better work together as a whole. His grand vision is based on both our diversity of God-given gifts and our Spirit-given unity in Christ Jesus.  

In a brand-new book Loved to Life, Ann Voskamp writes, “The last prayer of Jesus takes us to the very heartbeat of the mission and ministry of Jesus…. It could have been a prayer for a whole world of other things, but it was nothing less than that the passionate love of God would fuel us and fill us to pilgrimage out into the world with His otherworldly love.” In unity.  

On the journey with you, 

Pastor Tassie