Hello Grace Family!  There comes a time when life is so noisy we need a quiet place. We need to take a step back away from all the demands on our time and just listen to our soul. And in doing that we also open space up for God to speak to us. The question becomes, do you have a quiet place.…

Hello Grace Family!  I am having a hard time believing today is the first day of November! October went by so fast! But then we lost a week because of hurricane Milton as we prepared our homes and businesses, waited for the storm to go through our area, and then put everything back together. It was a lot. And then we begin setting up the…

Dear Grace United Methodist Church Family, Pastor Beth and I had the wonderful gift of gathering with other clergy in our District this past week!  It was a good opportunity for me to meet colleagues in this area and our DS, Sharon Austin, organized a wonderful training for us on Church Vitality.  We worshipped together, learned together, and dreamed together!  One of the…

Dear Grace Church Family, By the time you receive this communication, my hope is we will all have weathered the storm coming our way as I write this.  There are things I know even before the storm reaches land.  I know we are going to be called to be the church now more than ever before.  There are things I am not…

Dear Grace Church Family, This Sunday is Laity Sunday.  It is a very special day in the life of the church.  It is the day we honor the role of laity within the life of the Church.  I have been so impressed with the number of “high capacity” leaders at Grace UMC.  A high-capacity leader is one that takes on an area…

Dear Grace Church Family, God’s grace and peace to each of you this day.  I have so much on my mind to share with you this morning, but sometimes all that is whirling in our world needs to stop and all our eyes need to turn to something more important.  We are in such a time as this.  The devastation brought on…

Hi Grace Family! I hope you are all having a wonderful week, and I look forward to seeing you all in church this Sunday. I was delighted to see I am preaching on the passage in John about the vine and the branches. I love this passage found in John 15. I find it is a beautiful metaphor for staying connected to God and the church. In fact, when…

Dear Grace Church Family, It has been such a gift having my parents here this week.  We spent some time in the Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge.  I am pretty sure a set of binoculars are in my future, for I really enjoyed watching all the beautiful birds take flight.  It was a great way to spend the morning.  We will be at…

Dear Grace Church Family, As we prepare for the book study and sermon series looking at the Multiplying Love, resource by Paul Chilcote, I wanted to be sure to communicate an openness on my part and Pastor Beth’s part to make ourselves available to those of you who might have questions.   Some of you have already purchased the book and started reading…

Dear Grace Church Family, As I write this, we are fresh from the Presidential debate that aired Tuesday evening.  It is likely that we will be tempted in our spirit to turn our reliance towards our worldly leaders rather than Christ’s call to “love our neighbors as ourselves”.  I invite you to remember that there is no President that is going to deliver us the…