Dear Glen Mar friends, Lent starts on Wednesday of next week! Let’s get ready to party on Shrove Tuesday, aka Mardi Gras, on 2/21 from 5-7 pm at the church! It’s breakfast for dinner, with pancakes, eggs, sausage, applesauce and more! It comes from the tradition of cleaning out one’s pantry of sugar and other goodies leading into the season…

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…