On Sunday, January 21, Deacon Chair Sharlyn Menard charged the new and returning deacons with the integral work of caring for the needs of our congregation.  We grateful for these willing servants who offer love and compassion to others.  Click to watch.

In her sermon, Pastor Melanie Vaughn-West asks, "Who exactly does God love?"  Click to watch.

On Epiphany Sunday, Minister of Music Karen Bryant Shipp takes a look at the words of Frances Chesterton's poem "Here is the little door," set to music by Herbert Howells.  She asks us to consider what gifts we offer to the Christ child, and what consequences those hold for us.  Click to watch.

How can we possibly believe that God's light cannot be extinguished when evil seems rampant and our lives are filled with personal struggles?  Oakhurst member Anna Hall offers wisdom from the Gospel of John, the Cotton Patch, Watch Night traditions, and gardening to help us affirm God's light in our messy lives and strengthen our commitment to growing and shining that light in the New Year.  Click to watch.

As we continue to wait through the darkness of Advent, Pastor Lauren Colwell encourages us to allow the hope, peace, and love of all the earth to not simply perch on the outskirts of our lives, but live fully and completely in our hearts.  Click to watch.

Karen Shipp asks us to consider what grows in the dark as she reflects on Joseph and his powerful "Yes."  Click to watch.

The angel Gabriel surprises Mary, leading with, "Do not be afraid!" But his message is one that will send her life careening into the darkness of the unknown.  In her sermon "What's Born in the Dark," Pastor Melanie Vaughn-West asks, "When we find ourselves in the dark, our own future up-ended or unknown, can we trust the angel's assurance to not be afraid?"  Click to watch.

On the first Sunday of Advent Pastor Melanie Vaughn-West looks at Luke 1:5-23, the foretelling of the birth of John the Baptist.  She asks us to consider how waiting in the dark may not be an action wrapped in negativity, but one that allows us to sit and wait with God in love.  Click to watch.

On a day when we remember all the saints who have gone before us, Pastor Melanie Vaughn-West reminds us that nothing in all of creation is able to separate us from the never-ending love of God.  Click to watch.

David Rensberger reminds us that when we celebrate Christ the King, we must remember that he is a king of paradox. Matthew pictures him as a king who is encountered in his most vulnerable subjects, and who judges on the basis not only of justice but of compassion. When Ephesians says that he is seated at God's right hand with all things under his feet, and that he fills all in all, it portrays Christ in terms of divine Wisdom, through whom all creation came into being, and by whom it still is guided and filled with divine presence.  Click to watch.