Life In Greencastle

Advent has been described as standing on our tiptoes in expectation of Christ coming to us, like a little child waiting at the window for their dad to come home, like a wife looking down the corridor for her husband to arrive in the airport. This Sunday, we will mark the beginning of our waiting for Chirst - four Sundays in the Christian calendar known as Advent.   As we begin this journey, we invite you to come and join us as we prepare to receive and worship our Lord Jesus Christ. We also invite you to join us specifically for this coming Sunday as we decorate our church sanctuary, as our children make Advent crafts, and as we prepare our church home for God's presence once again. Come ... wait ... hope ... love.

Join us this Sunday after worship as we celebrate the birth of Levi Gill, son of Yug and Jenny Gill Want to help, Contact Marilyn Lawrence. If you can't make it Sunday,  Marilyn will also be happy to collect your gifts for the Gills.

Contact Carol Jervis @ the church to schedule a time for you/your family. 765.653.5713 Appointments available for 11/10 & 11/17 Our Deacons are working to put together a new pictorial directory, and they invite everyone to sign-up to have their picture taken.  This directory is for anyone connected to our congregation, not just for members. We are also fortunate to have our very own Jeremy Black serving as our Photographer. Sign-up today!

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This was several years ago - still in Greencastle, but several years ago.  It must have been my junior year of college, for I remember taking my mail up to my room on the third floor of the Delta Upsilon fraternity house at 626 Seminary Street and sitting down on the horribly over-used and wonderfully comfortable sofa my mother gladly let me unearth from our basement back in Zionsville.  The semester had just begun just like it is beginning all over again for a new generation of DePauw students.  Like any serious, dedicated college student, I had taken care to set up a wonderful entertainment and sound system in our room.   I had my roommate, Andrew Smith, to thank for this luxurious arrangement.  Andrew was a great friend ever since my elementary school days, and back in the summer when we were deciding what each of us would bring to enhance the quality of our little room in that old fraternity house Andrew offered up some high quality speakers his dad no longe...

Yesterday was a full day after a few weeks off for vacation and refreshment, and it was also a good day.  It began by gathering for our Sunday morning Bible Study in the parlor, as we continued to explore the Book of Acts together.  I'm really grateful that over the years we've grown closer as a group, and I was particularly grateful for the honesty we brought to the conversation yesterday.  To be sure, just like every other Bible Study I've ever participated in, we continue to find all sorts of things to talk about, but - to me - the good sign of really wrestling with and engaging God's Word is when we truly consider for ourselves what this text may be saying to us.  With the Book of Acts , that requires a great deal of openness, courage and even trust.  So much of the story in Acts is about God's sovereignty, power and freedom - how God can and does blow into the reality of our world, and how God's Spirit always brings about beautiful new realities for those...