April 3, 2017

Patrick Gaughan and Andrew Sullivan Become Eagle Scouts

Troop 1 Crestwood recently extended a big congratulations to their newest Eagles, Patrick Gaughan and Andrew Sullivan. We would like to recognize their great achievements along with all the scouts, family, friends, and honored guests who came to join the celebration at the Eagle Court of Honor held on Sunday, March 26, 2017. Eagle Court of Honor held on Sunday, March 26, 2017
March 31, 2017

Letter From the Pastor – April 2, 2017

To forgive other people is one of the most difficult things any of us will ever have to do.  If perhaps you don’t know that, it can only mean that you have never tried it.  Perhaps you’ve never been faced with that necessity. Maybe your heart has never been broken.  Maybe you’ve never been cheated, or lied to or about, or insulted.  Maybe you’ve never suffered physical or psychological injury at the hands of careless or, worse yet, malicious people.  If nothing like that has ever happened to you, let me assure you that you should be grateful; but you […]
March 24, 2017

Letter From the Pastor – March 26, 2017

As we all know when a child starts school, he or she doesn’t know for sure what to expect, how well he or she will do, or where it will all lead.  He or she just makes a start and then works his or her way through it, one day, one week, one year at a time.  Getting an education is an adventure.  When a young person chooses a vocation, he or she does not know for sure what the outcome will be.  Can he or she do the work?  Will he or she enjoy it?  Will he or she […]
March 17, 2017

Letter From the Pastor – March 19, 2017

Have you ever observed that a person who does not pray goes on a lonely pilgrimage?  He  or she shuts himself off from that help that is within his or her reach.  He will not take the outstretched hand of God.  He chooses to go it alone.  We should not make light of that person, for his choice may be born of deep sincerity.  But it would certainly seem that he puts too much trust in human strength alone.  In the New Testament, Jesus had much to say about the power of prayer.  But nowhere did He probe more deeply […]
March 10, 2017

Letter From the Pastor – March 12, 2017

If you ever visited the Holy Land, you would discover it is a dusty land.  It has two seasons – a rainy season that begins in the late fall and ends in the early spring.  Then, the arid season begins.  The land becomes parched and dry.  At the same time the siroccos blow from the deserts of Transjordan and Arabia.  This dusty character of the land is reflected throughout the bible.  The custom of foot washing was a courteous and practical gesture for guests who arrived with tired and dirty feet. We too get some dust on us just by […]