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Matt’s Musings: Listening and Responding

Do you ever feel guilty—about the things you spend money on, about how you use your time, and so on. Do you feel guilty that there are things you know you should be doing that you're not? Read full newsletter

Summer Potlucks Conclude

Since many of us often travel on weekends during the summertime we’ve been gathering for weeknight potluck dinners a few times a month throughout this summer. These have been a great way to stay connected as a community amidst our many comings and goings. August will be our final month as we move towards autumn and school starts back up: Read full newsletter

Sign-up Now for Pictorial Directory Photos!

I hope you’ve marked Thursday, September 13th as a special day on your calendars. That’s the day we’ll be having our photos taken for our 2013 Pictorial Directory! We’ve selected Lifetouch Church Directories and Portraits for this important project. Lifetouch is providing the directory at no cost to our church, one for each individual or family Read full newsletter

Prayer Concerns Email List

An email list has been created for people who want to receive updates on the prayer concerns of our church community. Read full newsletter

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Matt’s Musings: Guilt, Hope and Creativity

Do you ever feel guilty—about the things you spend money on, about how you use your time, and so on. Do you feel guilty that there are things you know you should be doing that you're not? Read full newsletter

"House-church" Worship Gathering July 8th

Since many people from our congregation will be traveling to Annual Conference or on family vacations over the second weekend in July, we will be having a special, informal “house-church” style worship service on July 8th. Read full newsletter

Introducing the Open Table Cooperative

There’s a new movement stirring within the Church of the Brethren—a group that seeks to inspire, empower, and connect individuals, congregations, and organizations from across the denomination to join in God’s boundary-breaking love. Read full newsletter

Loops of Love Location Change

Since its beginning, Loops of Love has been a collaborative project between our church and Unwind Yarn Shop, where the charity knitting—and crocheting—group has met. Unfortunately, the owner of Unwind is leaving town and is in the process of closing (or perhaps selling) the shop. Read full newsletter

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Matt’s Musings: Being and Doing

It recently came up in conversation that our congregation seems to emphasize “doing” over “being” when it comes to how we engage with our faith, perhaps even to the point that those who might prefer “being” would feel uncomfortable or unwelcome. When I first heard this, it gave me pause. I wasn’t sure how to respond. It’s taken me a little while to figure out why this distinction was so difficult for me. Read full newsletter

Insurrection Book Discussion: To believe is human. To doubt, divine

Our discussion of the book Insurrection, by Peter Rollins, has been a great success! As we look towards finishing our discussions, we’ve reached a diverging point. The group that meets at Smiley’s Pub on Tuesdays at 5:15pm will be finishing up the final two chapters on June 5 and 12. The Sunday morning group is currently on hold as our main participants are out of town for a few weeks. We’ll pick back up with Chapter 6 on Sunday mornings sometime in July.  Read full newsletter

Joint Worship and Brunch at Quaker Hill

The local Friends (Quaker) meetings have invited us to join them in their annual tradition of gathering for a special time of worship and fellowship at Quaker Hill Conference Center, located in the Spring Grove area: 10 Quaker Hill Dr., Richmond, IN. Read full newsletter

New Reimbursement Guidelines

One of the Ministry Team’s goals for the remainder of 2012 is to increase our financial accountability through clarifying our policies and practices. We’ve started by creating a new set of guidelines for receiving reimbursement for church budget items and special funds. Read full newsletter

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Matt’s Musings: Making Active Connections

We’ve talked a lot about hospitality and welcome over the last couple years. We’ve made great strides in being a welcoming congregation, including our week-to-week practices of showing warmth and care for visitors and adopting an identity-building statement of inclusion. Read full newsletter

Insurrection Book Discussion: To believe is human. To doubt, divine

Come and engage with the incendiary, inflammatory work of Peter Rollins' newest book, Insurrection, over the next few weeks. Rollins encourages readers to submit our spiritual practices, religious rituals, and dogmatic affirmations to the flames of fearless interrogation. By doing so, we might begin to see that Christianity is in the business of transforming our world rather than offering a way of interpreting or escaping it.  Read full newsletter

Open Arms Banquet and Silent Auction:Run for the Roses

Make plans now to attend the 2nd Annual Open Arms Fundraiser Dinner and Silent Auction on Saturday, May 5 from 5:00–-8:00 pm in the Lingle Auditorium of Reid Hospital. This fun-filled evening is Kentucky Derby-themed, featuring a delicious southern-style dinner with appetizers, main dish and dessert. Read full newsletter

Outreach Emphasis: New Community Project

The New Community Project is a faith-based nonprofit organization with the modest goal of changing the world! People are struggling, the earth is a mess, God's not amused, and we all know something's not right here. Its mission is to provide experiences that change us, resources that challenge us, and a community that gives us hope. Read full newsletter

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Matt’s Musings: Believing, Experiencing, Being Transformed

Of all the stories of Jesus’ life, teaching, death, and resurrection, the miracles are often one of the most difficult to relate to and understand. They stand apart from our everyday experiences of how the world works. They seem to fly against logic and common sense. They’re beyond understanding, beyond explanation, beyond belief. Read full newsletter

Church Leadership Retreat Follow-ups

Our church leadership retreat on March 24th yielded several exciting new plans, particularly regarding how we care for, incorporate, and encourage children in our church’s ministry: We will immediately begin a search for a paid childcare worker for Sunday mornings. Finding volunteers for childcare has been a long-time struggle, and good childcare is an important part of extending hospitality Read full newsletter

Holy Week Gatherings

Holy week, leading up to Easter, is always one of the most deeply meaningful times to gather as a community for worship, reflection, and fellowship. Start making plans now to join in this year’s events including Read full newsletter

The Purpose of Easter Vigil: What, How and Why?

What is an Easter Vigil, and why are we having one? For centuries Christians have prepared themselves in special ways to experience the resurrection celebration of Easter morning more fully. (Also includes detailed schedule of the vigil) Read full newsletter

Open Arms Annual Silent Auction and Dinner

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Special Forum: How do Glow-in-the-dark Pajamas work?

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Matt’s Musings: My Big Question

Over the last few weeks I’ve worked with the worship team and with many of you on creating a series of "big questions" to explore during Lent. I’ll admit I was at least a little worried about what some of you might come up with - not because they might be heretical or challenging the status quo, but because they were likely to be some of the questions I struggle with myself. And, sure enough, that has turned out to be the case. Read full newsletter

"Questioning Lent" Worship Series

We asked for your biggest questions and now we’ve chosen seven of them to explore during the season of Lent. In the weeks leading up to Easter we’ll be wrestling with these questions, straight from members of our congregation Read full newsletter

Holy Week Events

Holy Week, the days leading up to Easter, is always a special time filled with unique opportunities to worship God and embody our faith. This year, in addition to our usual gatherings on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday morning, we’re also adding an exciting new event: an Easter Vigil. Read full newsletter

2011 Financial Wrap-up

The Ministry Team, with tremendous help from our treasurer Jane Muller and financial secretary Don Miller, has finalized our church’s 2011 financial report. The complete report will be emailed to our church news list and printed copies will be available in the gathering area outside the sanctuary. Read full newsletter

Windows to be Replaced

During our December 2011 congregational meeting the proposal was made to start replacing some of our building’s aging, inefficient windows. Ron Itnyre, our building and grounds coordinator, has been working for several months on obtaining quotes and helping the Ministry Team to discern how to start. Read full newsletter

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Read our monthly newsletter to discover what's going on in and around the Richmond Church of the Brethren. February 2012 edition

The January 2012 edition of Intersections, our church newsletter, is now online! Apologies for the late timing and less-beautiful formatting - we hope to return to our usual, beginning of the month publication date and more appealing format in February. 

Check out this month's newsletter for all this and more:

• A New Year's Epistle from Pastor Matt
• Special offerings and outreach opportunities
• Worship themes and preachers
• Updates from our Computer Hardware Co-op
• Our January Calendar

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Read our December Newsletter to find out more about what's happing at Richmond Church of the Brethren this month:

• Matt's Musings on "Waiting for Light"
• Special worship and fellowship gatherings for Advent and Christmas
• A wrap-up from our fall congregational meeting
• And much more!

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Read the November Newsletter to find out what's going on in and around the Richmond Church of the Brethren and how you can be involved.