Worship Archives - Remembering Janet

Seeing the Spirit of God

January 31, 2018April 28, 2020 Kelly Bixby

At home in mid-January 2018, I was surprised to receive a thank you note mistakenly addressed to Pastor Janet Richardson. It was clear to me that whoever sent the postcard wasn’t familiar with Janet. They would have known her by her marital surname—Noble-Richardson—and that she had died in 2006. But the faux pas were easy to make. Working through our... Read More

Swayed by Our Scholarship Applicants

August 31, 2017April 27, 2020 Kelly Bixby

Before I began writing to you today, I needed encouragement. You see, August was the month that Remembering Janet selected our latest scholarship recipients. I knew that the notification letters, mailed yesterday, would soon be eagerly opened by all the candidates, but only five would be elated to know that they had swayed us and won awards. The rest might... Read More

Christ Was Love

December 20, 2016April 28, 2020 Rev. Steven Schafer

A sermon delivered December 11, 2016 on the third Sunday of Advent at Mt. Hope Congregational Church, by Rev. Steven Schafer Texts: Zechariah 2:10-13 and Luke 2:15-2:20 Babies are something special. I can never forget what it was like to see my two girls at their births. That is a feeling and experience that nothing else can quite match. There... Read More