June 21, 2020

We will host an online worship service on Sunday, June 20th at 11:15 am.

“Good Enough Father” – Rev Karen Gustafson.
Like Mother’s Day, Father’s Day has a mixed history that has morphed into a more or less contrived cultural and commercial phenomenon. At best, perhaps, it offers a moment to pause amidst the chaos and ambiguity of this time of history in the making, to reflect with compassion on the relationships  of fathering and being fathered, over against its own cultural mythology. The fragile, imperfect, well intended people who enter into these relationships, on purpose and by accident, for better and for worse are inevitably shaped in the process. On this Father’s Day join with me in time of reflection on how to claim the blessings, small and great, of our paternal legacies.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 11 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note the 9:30 and 11:15 services are being rolled into one service time so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) (click here to learn more).