Dear Glen Mar friends, “I don’t know why MORE isn’t always BETTER.” He leaned forward over the coffee cups earnestly. “After all, God always wants us to do more for Him . . .” This was one of my earliest conversations when I arrived here as your pastor 5+ years ago. The Leadership Board had asked me for my input…

Dear Glen Mar friends, We are making exciting changes to our church’s online community! Our new platform will provide you with more ways to be connected with each other online, allow you to stay informed about activities and provide you with up-to-date personal giving information. Our new platform is called Realm Connect. We want everyone to set up an account…

Dear Glen Mar friends, For this Sunday, aka Super Bowl Sunday, as our own way to show justice and kindness and walk humbly with God, we will donate $1 for every in person worshipper to UMCOR earthquake relief in Turkey and Syria, and $10 for every point scored in the Super Bowl on Sunday… in addition to taking up a…

Dear Glen Mar friends, As February begins, I’m reminded of the movie Groundhog Day (where reporter Bill Murray repeats the same day – Groundhog Day over and over). Sometimes our life can feel like that . . . and certainly the horrific news from Memphis and Monterey leads to the lament “O Lord, How Long?” We are so weary of…

Dear Glen Mar friends, When I was little, we’d go to my Papaw’s house in Southwestern Virginia for holidays, to be with my dad’s family. They come from a long line of Georgia red dirt poor farmers, and the stories that I hear about my forebears are a lot about the hardship they faced. It had to be difficult to…