Jan 4, 2011 | Off the Director's Desk
I spent the Holidays driving. More accurately, my wife, our two children (who really weren’t excited about being in the car for days at a time), and I embarked on a cross country trip that began on the West Side of Binghamton went to Pensacola, FL and back...
Dec 21, 2010 | Off the Director's Desk
I’ve been doing quite a bit of thinking about Joseph recently. Sure it had something to do with the fact that I was preaching at Nativity Lutheran the last Sunday of Advent and the reading was from Matthew 1: 18 – 25 which centers on Joseph, but more to...
Dec 17, 2010 | Off the Director's Desk
Ann Weems in her book Kneeling in Bethlehem writes a poem entitled”Yesterday’s Pain.” Some of us walk into Advent tethered to our unresolved yesterdays the pain still stabbing the hurt still throbbing It’s not that we don’t know better;...
Nov 23, 2010 | Off the Director's Desk
One of the questions I routinely get relates to the signature line when I sign correspondence. Unless it’s a business letter or an email, I usually put Peace and Towels as the closing remark to a letter. In John 17 just before Jesus is crucified, he gathers his...
Nov 23, 2010 | Off the Director's Desk
One of my friends is a pastor in Tellico Village in Tennessee. Marty recently won an award for a sermon he preached on the book of Ruth. It was later published in the International Council of Community Churches newsletter. You can read the sermon by following this...
Nov 19, 2010 | Off the Director's Desk
2011 will mark the 70th anniversary of the Broome County Council of Churches. Seventy years ago we began as the United Churches of Broome County with a total membership of twenty-six churches. CHOW, FIAV, Jail Ministry, RAMP IT UP, CHOW Farm, Hospital Chaplaincy were...
