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Every Time I Feel the Spirit

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Lent, The Messenger 2022-02-01
By Pastor Melaina Trice Every Time I Feel the Spirit, an African American spiritual hymn, expresses the relationship between the Spirit and humankind. It is one of my favorite songs. “Every time I feel the Spirit moving…” says God’s Spirit is active, and can be felt; it can be experienced. While this notion of God being felt is steeped in…
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The Hope of Lent

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Lent, The Messenger 2022-02-01
By Pastor Heerak Kim “I despise your festivals…” Amos 5:21. It contradicts Genesis 1 in which God creates lights in the sky “for signs and for seasons and for days and years” (14), and also Genesis 8 where God promises to Noah after the flood, “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvests, cold and heat, summer and winter,…
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Wish Upon A Star 2021 Blessed Many Families

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Christmas, The Messenger 2022-02-01, wish upon a star
By Joan Marshall Thanks to the generosity of our Glen Mar community, many area families and children in need were blessed with wonderful gifts this past Christmas. We provided gifts to 32 families that included 157 people, 112 of whom were children. All families received grocery store gift cards in addition to individual gifts. Gift recipients were selected by Ames…
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Experiencing the Journey to Bethlehem 2021

Connect, Opportunities to Serve, The Messenger
The Messenger 2022-02-01
By Mary Ellen Conley December 2021 marked Glen Mar’s 14th Journey To Bethlehem (the name changed from “Walk” to “Journey” in 2020). As a Glen Mar employee, supporting event director Margaret Lang, I reluctantly began to volunteer in the jewelry hut in the market place in 2017. (I’m more of a “behind the scenes” person.) For the past two pandemic…
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