Session Committee Updates
Session, on Wednesday, made a structural change to its committees. We now have the four following committees and chairs.
Congregational Life, chaired by Todd and Abby
Worship, chaired by MaryLou
Education, chaired by June Howard
Stewardship, chaired by Tom Howard
Member at large, Dave Ramsay, attending to the PwP team
This change is intended to reflect how we are living and streamline our administrative work
so we can focus on doing and being a church.
If you are interested, please reach out to Pastor Joe or a committee chair. As we transition from our previous committee structure to our new committee structure, there will be some wrapping up of business.
The scope and mission of each revised committee will be refined over time. We welcome questions and suggestions.
9am Adult Education Continues
This month, we are diving deeper into topic of God, building on our work with readings from our Book of Confessions with essays from Sallie McFague and Kathryn Tanner that respond to the question "is God in charge?" Along the way they offer different approaches to thinking about not only this question, but how it is that we relate to and imagine God. Click here to read these essays and the foreword. You are not expected to do all the reading! These essays are challenging, though not beyond us if we go slowly. If you'd like to break this reading into chunks, I suggest pages 93-101, 101-116, and 116 to 130. We will take several weeks to work our way through them and whether you make time to read them beforehand or not, I am excited to explore their questions together!
As a bonus, I'm also attaching this chapter from Jack Roger's Presybterian Creeds, which offers a history of the Scot's Confession, one of the early reformation texts we've been studying. Roger's work explores the contexts of the creeds, noting some of the conflicts and questions prompted the authors to produce them and which shape their approach. We will likely come back to this later, though eager readers may find them helpful in wondering then what questions prompt the theological wonderings and declarations of our own time.
Click here for last month's initial readings, drawn from the Book of Confessions.
As new questions emerge, we'll add new, provocative (and short) readings from ancient and contemporary sources exploring who God is, why it matters (and if it does), and along the way, beginning to wonder what this means for human beings and for the world. As we go, we'll continue to ponder the phenomenon of resonance, asking where we encounter God in our lives.
As always, Christian Education Hour at WPPC is a time for exploration and making sense of our tradition, our experience, and our world. Join us!
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