by Melissa Kelly | Jun 16, 2024 | Liz Colver, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
God’s Playground God delights in God’s playground – all of creation is meant to be enjoyed and to participate in the purpose of the rest of creation. This sermon is a celebration of all that God has created, called good, and invited us to participate in....
by Melissa Kelly | Jun 9, 2024 | Guest Speaker, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Creation Roars, Sings, and Trusts Brisa Peacock from Camp CAMREC shared a sermon as part of our series on Creation Care, offering a glimpse into how SMC’s and WMF’s relationship with CAMREC continues to contribute to the region’s stewardship of land...
by Melissa Kelly | May 26, 2024 | Liz Colver, Sermons
Making the World Cultures and traditions – including religions – all have multiple creation stories. Today we hear one from our scriptures told in Genesis, and our sermon shares another one – in the form of the children’s book “Big Momma Makes the...
by Melissa Kelly | May 21, 2023 | Easter, Megan Ramer, Sermons, Year W
Learn to Know to Love to Honor/Protect Place-based watershed discipleship and the spiritual practice of reverence deepen our experience of kinship with all creation. Pastor Megan shares stories of learning to know mountains, learning to know neighbors and...
by Melissa Kelly | Apr 30, 2023 | Easter, Guest Speaker, Sermons, Year W
Earth and Breath Sarah Augustine, our Just Peace Climate Justice speaker, discusses the uses and failures of Capitalism and calls us to engage in an Indigenous cosmology that prioritizes Community Wellbeing over individuals and profit. She deftly contrasts a worldview...
