Intergenerational Ministry Updates “Intergenerational Ministry” is a buzzword in many of my professional circles. Though it sounds like jargon, it simply means “ministry for all ages.” Many churches are finding that separating church attendees by age all the time...
Look Toward a Meaningful Lenten Practice This Year “I imagine Lent for you and for me as a great departure from the greedy, anxious antineighborliness of our economy, a great departure from our exclusionary politics that fears the other, a great departure from self-indulgent consumerism...
Annual Report: Rev. Traci Smith, 2018 There are plenty of times in my life when I’m asked to spell the word Presbyterian -- when I’m registering my children at the pediatrician and need to put down my place of employment, or when I’m giving directions. P-R-E-S-B-Y-T-E-R-I-A-N...
January 2019 Celebrating 60 Years of God’s Grace at Elmhurst Presbyterian Church Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. - Mother Teresa Last week, as we were in the thick of things for Christmas Eve service, I stopped to look through a bulletin...
This morning I came across a helpful reminder: When everything is important, nothing is. As I told the Session at our last meeting, I’m the type of person who can get excited about a lot of different things. “If a train is going by," a friend once told me "you want to get...