First Sunday of Advent 10:30AM in the BTSR Chapel Celebration of the Lord’s Supper Offering & Blessing our 2018 Commitments of Financial Support Lighting the First Advent Candle, the candle of Peace Scripture Texts: Daniel 3:1-30 Sermon: Stand for Something by Rev. Mandy England Cole Anthem: Let There Be Peace Read more…
Thank you to all who donated canned hams and vegetables for our food drive benefiting the Oregon Hill Baptist Center! We collected fifty-four hams and a zillion canned goods.
Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost 10:30AM in the BTSR Chapel Scripture Texts: Psalm 137: 1-6 Jeremiah 29:1, 4-14 Sermon Seek the Welfare by Rev. Mandy England Cole Anthem: Listen with Your Heart by Chancel Choir Guest Accompanist: Crystal Bayles Lennon
Come and find the quiet center as we begin this Advent and Christmas season. Join us for a time of song, prayer, reflection, and shared stories as we make room in our hearts and lives to welcome the Holy. Join us Wednesday, November 29th at 6:30PM for a contemplative Read more…
And she brought forth her firstborn, a son…and put him in a diaper, the first of hundreds he would wear – diapers that would not be covered by WIC, diapers that might strain the family budget. She would need hundreds of baby wipes, too…LOTS of diapers and wipes! Bring a Read more…
Our Thanksgiving Food Drive is underway! Your contributions are welcome now through Sunday, November 12th. We are collecting canned hams and canned vegetables for the Oregon Hill Baptist Center’s ministry with our homeless neighbors in Richmond. Leave your donations in one of the decorated turkey boxes (created by our children and Read more…
What is your relationship to money? What are the messages that influence your financial choices? How do you spend the money you have? Where is your money flow in harmony with your values? And, what changes might you be called to live into that would align your financial and spiritual Read more…
How do we measure a year? In people welcomed, forgiven, loved. In backpacks, and food drives, and in compassion for those in need. In prayers said, in marches marched, in young ministers trained up. In songs sung, and anthems raised, in bells rung. In laughter, in meals shared, in scriptures explored. In hellos and in goodbyes and in those precious moments beside the death bed of our dear ones. In packing lists, doors closed, tears shed,
and in learning a new thing. In stories, in banners, in ashes, in candles lit, in flowers on a cross, in bread broken and in cup shared. Read More
Anniversary Sunday 10:30AM in the BTSR Chapel We will celebrate our 101st Church Anniversary with prayers of gratitude and thanks! Scripture Text: I Samuel 3: 1-21 Homily: More Than Words by Mandy England Cole Anthem: Speak, O Lord by Chancel Choir
Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost Service of Worship 10:30AM in the BTSR Chapel Scripture Texts: John 10:1-14 Psalm 23 Sermon: Fear, Trust, and the Valley by Rev. Mandy England Cole Handbell Solo: by Sandra Hack Polaski