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Staff & Vestry Transitions

Dear Resurrection Family, As we step into summer, I want to provide you with a brief update about a few staff changes, our new vestry members, and the rector search. Staff Changes After nine years, Fr. Will Chester is stepping down from his role as Youth Pastor in order to focus…
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What Is a Sick Person to Do?

By Lee Phillips I was in my mid-fifties with a healthy lifestyle, rarely sick, no family history, a great marriage, three children, a rewarding career, and my youngest was leaving to start college. How could such a beautiful August day hold such terrible news? I had a death sentence hanging…
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Easter Testimony

By Lupe Before I met Jesus, I battled depression and anxiety from the age of 13 to 19. I believed in God but was filled with anger and wanted nothing to do with church. I felt lost, with no guidance or direction in life, and my only goal became abusing…
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Update on the Rector Search Process

Senior Warden Amy Patton recently gave an update to our congregation on the rector search process. She outlined progress thus far and the Search Committee’s next steps. Here’s a summary: Looking back: Since Father Steve stepped down as rector/dean last June, Fr. Matt’s leadership as interim dean was established, and…
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Saturday

By Ella Childs  Though the day is for resting, I find I cannot sit still with the grief. And he has left us with this suffocating stillness, the absence of him, the tomb now shut, sealed tight with a stone. And the stone is also my heart, heavy, hard, and…
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Palm Sunday

By Chris Ribaudo  There is a season for everything, even here, where lawns are trimmed to perfection, where mailboxes lean slightly in the wind, and the rhythm of sprinklers keeps time with the ticking of clocks. Today, the cul-de-sac hums with life, porch lights glow in the fading dusk, and…
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