Acts 1:8 You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. To be a witness requires two different actions.  First, you have to see.  You have to experience something.  You have to take…

Acts 1:8  You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you… In the past couple of months, I’ve preached a couple of times about a shift we are making as a congregation, using an image presented by author and church leader Joan Gray. We are moving from being a row boat church…

Acts 1:6   So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?”  7 He replied, “It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.” Once the disciples figured out that Jesus was…

Acts 1:2 Before he was taken up, working in the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus instructed the apostles he had chosen. 3 After his suffering, he showed them that he was alive with many convincing proofs. He appeared to them over a period of forty days, speaking to them about God’s kingdom.  There are forty…

I am asking all of us to commit to a week of very intentional prayer for our congregation and its ministries.  God is about to do a new thing in and through us.  May we be united in prayer in this week as we prepare to step into this next season of our church’s life in and through the Spirit’s power.  

This fall, we are going to invite you to consider making a Discipleship Covenant as part of our Stewardship season, because we recognize that Stewardship is not meant to simply be about raising funds for the church.  Stewardship at its core is about each of us learning how to be good stewards of this life…

I am a cradle Presbyterian.  My parent’s met when my dad’s dad was the chair of the Pastor Nominating Committee at Riley Presbyterian Church, which called my mom’s dad to be their new pastor.  I’ve got deep Presbyterian roots on both sides of my family, and might be what one would call a dyed in…

Katie Sleigh, Chair of HPC’s Outreach Committee, shares about a new ministry HPC has felt called to support – Care Beyond the Boulevard.  The moving van showed up one day in the late 90’s. My two young boys, Andrew and Patrick, were so excited when they discovered that the new family had kids their age….

Saturday, we gathered as a congregation out in our barn on a beautiful, cool August evening to worship, to celebrate our partnership with Heartland Camp over these past 10 summer weeks, and to bless our children and educators (and their backpacks) as they are headed back to school this month. Our scripture for Sunday evening…

Yesterday was our last work day for our trip, and we hit the ground running at 8:30am, with the hope of finishing as much as we could in the time we had.  We learned early in the day, the group coming in after us had special tiling skills and so were getting pulled to another…

Yesterday morning, we headed back to our work site with our reinforcements in tow and a positive attitude about the work ahead of us.  Two more people on our team meant that we could divide into three work teams at the trailer, which allowed us to get even more done. Here are some highlights from…

Yesterday was a challenging day. We arrived at our work site ready to go and were confronted by the reality that we would spend this week doing what we could on a mobile home that I think all of us would deem unlivable, if we had encountered it on our own. However, thankfully this week…