Pastor’s Message: Sept. 22, 2023

A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: IMPORTANT CONVERSATIONS As we hope you know, the Session and Trustees began an intensive season of mission discernment for our congregation with a joint retreat about ten months ago. That retreat focused on examining the kinds of...

Pastor’s Message: Sept. 15, 2023

A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: GOOD ENOUGH Kate Bowler is a professor of the history of North American Christianity at Duke Divinity School, having studied at both Duke and Yale University first. She is a person, in other words, of considerable accomplishment,...

Pastor’s Message: Sept. 8, 2023

A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: A NEW ADVENTURE Having dropped my son Liam off at college a few weeks ago, I find myself thinking back to my own experiences of my first few weeks of college. My setting was very different in many ways to his: Sewanee, where I...

Pastor’s Message: Sept. 1, 2023

A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: RECAPPING OUR TOWN HALL As you hopefully know, we held an important Congregational Town Hall last Sunday at which the Joint Finance Committee of the Session and Trustees reported on the current finances of the congregation, as well...

Pastor’s Message: Aug. 18, 2023

A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: EXPANDING OUR LEADERSHIP As most of you know, one of the great blessings we have had as a congregation is the service of Cindy Simmons and Steve Simmons as “Parish Associates.” In the Presbyterian Church (USA), ordained Ministers...