Mar 22, 2021 | Alexandria DS Notes, News & Info
This was initially given as part of a worship service for Clergy at their March Clergy Meeting. Numbers 21:4-9 In this reading for the fourth Sunday of Lent from the Book of Numbers, as the people of Israel wander in the wilderness for 40 years, the longest year is...
Feb 22, 2021 | Alexandria DS Notes, News & Info
I heard someone comment recently that it seems like we have been in Lent for the whole past year. In the pandemic, we have had to give up some things, we have had to make sacrifices, we have experienced various degrees of suffering. Many of us have been praying more,...
Feb 22, 2021 | Alexandria DS Notes, Arlington DS Notes, News & Info
As we enter into the second year of the pandemic, both the Alexandria and the Arlington District Finance Committees, in cooperation with the Bi-District Board of Missions, have created an option for prioritizing apportionment payments in 2021. The Virginia Annual...
Jan 25, 2021 | Alexandria DS Notes, News & Info
“I praise you, [Lord], for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well.” Psalm 139:14 (New Revised Standard Version) What does it mean to live as people who are made, both...
Dec 21, 2020 | Alexandria DS Notes, News & Info
“Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.” Philippians 4:4 (New Revised Standard Version) In the wonderful Christmas anthem, “O Holy Night,” there is a line that masterfully captures how I feel...
Nov 20, 2020 | Alexandria DS Notes, News & Info
“The Lord is my strength and my shield; in Him my heart trusts; so I am helped, and my heart exults, and with my song I will give thanks to Him.” – Psalm 28:7 (New Revised Standard) As we pause amid the many troubles and trials that have come to be 2020, it is good...
