Announcements for December 31, 2020 Happy New Year to all! May 2021 be filled with abundant blessings. We need to keep our eyes on what we have and not dwell on what is missing. The reading from Jeremiah this week reveals the joy that Jeremiah felt to finally be Read more…
After a successful launch of online Sunday School this past Sunday we will continue this Sunday starting at 9am. Our Lay Pastoral Leader will lead a short Sunday School lesson before and our younger folks are invited to print out and either color this drawing or they can color it Read more…
Here is the Easter Message from Bishop Susan Goff: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/WhctKJVqtvZfwHJxpFLWlqTwQmRWvSGkfrWQJFDqTJVvRRqzftgqfkFTmpwNrkzFSLzxRfB
For three weeks now, or so, we have worshipped online. Our beautiful building has been locked, I have placed a sign on the door offering information and a way to access pastoral care if needed. And when I go in the door to, say, pick up the Paschal Candle for Read more…
Every once in a while someone will call me ‘Johnny one-note.’ I’ll bet you didn’t know that. The conversation goes something like this: “Hey, you preached on the simple Jesus thing again this week.” “Yup.” “By my count that’s six times in the last six months.” “Yup.” “You’re beginning to Read more…
HERE IS THE URL TO USE FOR EVERY CHRIST CHURCH SERVICE, INCLUDING PALM SUNDAY AND EASTER UNTIL WE RETURN TO OUR CHURCH BUILDING: https://zoom.us/j/446103183 PLEASE NOTE YOU NOW NEED A PASSWORD. ENTER 273453 TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SERVICES.
We had a wonderful service and adult forum this Sunday. During the service we continued to play ‘Johnny one note’ and talk about the simplicity of the Jesus Way. We talked about how we sometimes put up barriers—personally, collectively, as a church that complicate the way and leave some people Read more…
The Lay Pastoral Leader email from now on is episcopalccl@gmail.com kurt@christchurchlucketts.org is no longer active. Sorry for the inconvenience.
This past Sunday I was the guest celebrant at Crossroads United Methodist Church in Ashburn. Before coming to Christ Church, Crossroads (or as it is written in short hand Xrds) was one of the two churches I was serving, St. Gabriel’s Episcopal, here in Leesburg the other one. Thanks to Read more…
Monday morning, as I made my way to St. Anselm’s Benedictine Abbey in Washington DC for two days of retreat and planning with the abbot for a weekend I am running for them later in the spring, I began to wonder, again, why I never went to the monastery for Read more…