Words from Washington

We had a baptism at Mount Vernon Place yesterday morning. When we gathered for worship yesterday, we welcomed a new family into the midst o...

Two new signs were installed at the church last week. The signs are rather large and imposing. No one can possibly walk by the property with...

Craig and I have been doing a lot of wedding planning in recent weeks. We have booked the wedding site , the reception site , a florist, an...

When I graduated from junior high school and walked into the doors of Rock Bridge High School for the first time in 1996, I thought I was gr...

We celebrated a birthday at Mount Vernon Place yesterday. Howard Martin turned 99 years old. Howard joined Mount Vernon Place in the 1940s...

I spent time last weekend with my grandparents in Missouri. Grandma and Grandpa have been married for 66 years and the y still farm just sou...

We concluded a ten-week sermon series yesterday on "Why Does the Bible Include That?" This series has been a blessing to me as I h...

I am in Kansas City this week, participating in a class at the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas. The Church o...

A great deal of progress was mad e on the demolition project at Mount Vernon Place yesterday. When I arrived in the morning, one of the work...

I am in Chicago for a couple of days, spending time with 20 young seminary students through the Fund for Theological Education. The program...

The demolition has been in full operation this week at Mount Vernon Place . I have been amazed at what has been accomplished. The 1940 bui...

Preaching is the thing I enjoy most about being a pastor. I love to stand before the gathered community of God, seeking to offer a Word that...

I love the church, and I specifically love the church I am privileged to be a part of . Each week, I see more and more transformation takin...

The demolition process has continued this week at Mount Vernon Place . Bits and pieces of the two additions are being stripped away from th...

"Will you marry me?" I have often thought about the day when this question would be asked, who would ask it, and where we would be...

The demolition work has begun at Mount Vernon Place. The demolition crew started yesterday to carefully separate the buildings to be demolis...

Several people, ministries and organizations have been displaced as a result of the construction and renovation work being done at Mount Ver...

I attended the Baltimore Washington Annual Conference today of the United Methodist Chu rch. Annual Conference is a time at which clergy and...

"Pastor, you must have guts if you preached that sermon." "Wow. Your sermon really touched me." "Can you believe s...