Sep 30, 2018 | News & Info, Alexandria District Lay Leader
Are You Ready for Some Change? How do you feel about change? Are you comfortable when it happens? Do you feel upset when change is happening all around you? And what about change in your local church? Are you ready for it? These are all...
Sep 13, 2018 | News & Info, Alexandria DS Notes
Remembering Isabel, Anticipating Florence As I write these words, Hurricane Florence is churning in the Atlantic Ocean, forecast to make landfall along the coast of North Carolina as a category 4 hurricane, then to move slowly northeast across North Carolina and...
Sep 13, 2018 | News & Info, Alexandria DS Notes, Books
The Book I Have Been Looking For With all of the conversation about our United Methodist Church’s way forward, I have been looking for a resource that will explore the issues from a clear and sustained theological perspective. My search is over with the recent...
Sep 13, 2018 | News & Info, Alexandria District Lay Leader
Servant Leadership We’ve just started our Charge Conferences for this year and the theme is “servant leadership.” As before, we’ll start with a hymn … “Here I Am Lord” … Have you ever really paid attention to the words? They are very powerful! Our...
Sep 2, 2018 | News & Info, Arlington DS Notes
Something Brand-New. A New Thing. Arlington District Superintendent, Rev. Cathy Abbott, is currently on renewal leave. She has asked clergy from her district to write guest columns for the monthly Arlington District Newsletter while...