Chapel Hill, you may already know about our big Jubilee celebration (November 17th!) but did you know our community is celebrating our 50 years as a church as well? Tomorrow, November 12th, starting at 5:30pm the city council of Gig Harbor will sign a resolution making November 17th Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church Day! Please, if […]
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Just imagine if you got this message from your bank! “I have good news for you! We have canceled your mortgage. Your debt is now paid in full and you own your home free and clear!” At first you would be suspicious. But after discovering that it was not a scam… can you imagine the […]
Eighteen months ago our church session recommended to the Chapel Hill congregation that we move into the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. This was a principled, prayerful decision born out of deep theological conviction. The congregation affirmed that decision by a vote of 92% in the affirmative. I wonder what the vote would have been if it […]
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He went on a three -day hike to spend time alone with the Lord. On Saturday, as he was traversing a rock fall, he slipped and fell 150 feet, breaking his ankle in the process. He splinted his ankle with pieces from his back pack, gathered wood, built a fire and waited. And waited. And […]
I am rushing to put these words on my screen. Just this moment I returned from a Pastor’s Retreat over on the coast. This week, we are hosting the gathering of pastors and elders from our presbytery, a geographical area that comprises—brace yourself—all of the west coast, parts of Idaho, Hawaii and Alaska! (We do […]
Two weeks ago I preached on Psalm 122, the one where the psalmist declares, “I was glad when they said to me, ‘Let us go to the house of the Lord!’” I asked the question, “Are you this glad to be in the house of the Lord here on the corner of Rosedale and Skansie? […]
On November 17 we will celebrate Jubilee Sunday. It was exactly 50 years ago, November 17, 1963—five days before JFK was assassinated—that Chapel Hill United Presbyterian Church came into existence. On Jubilee Sunday at 10:00am (one service only), we will look back over five decades of ministry as an opportunity to celebrate God’s goodness and […]
I was looking forward to the game. I’ll admit, in part, it’s because I think Jim Harbaugh, the coach of the San Francisco 49ers, is such a bad, bad sport! So, as I watched the frequent close-ups of him and his increasingly frequent facial tics as the Seahawks wiped up Century Link Field with their […]
Today was a day of mixed activities. We had a day to explore Chaing Mae. Some visited the local sites, others went on elephant rides and time at the spa. But the day was highlighted by a dinner at a restaurant on the river with Allan and Joan Eubank. We continue to love their stories […]
This was another day totally blessed by God. The original plan was to drive from Mae Sot to Chiang Mae (about 5 hours), but we got the opportunity to go to the Mae La refugee camp. This camp has over 50,000 people living in it, some of who have been there for decades. There are […]