Ginter Park Presbyterian Church

Snippets from some of the year’s story tellers: January I go to church because I love the traditions and stories and the individual...

Saturday, I stood in DC and I marched.  I traveled up there with a group of my classmates to join in the march planned by a group called...

Do you have a favorite Lovefeast memory? A song, a reading, distinctive flavors, your children at a certain age? Do the services instead...

As we approach the holiday season, many people choose to engage in some sort of gratitude practice. For my family, this has traditionally...

Here’s a fun, quirky thing I’ve noticed about our new hymnals: they travel around the sanctuary. I like to read the dedication and...

At Ginter Park Presbyterian Church, the invitation to Communion is a living, breathing, evolving act. Carla makes clear in vivid and...

Ayana Wills offers the final installment in our series of new elder blogs. After a time of training this summer, she was ordained as a...

“Where do you find meaning in your life and at GPPC?  What crossroads do you face within GPPC and what do you hear God calling you to...

Remember when you were a little kid in Sunday School and you planted some flower seeds in a little paper cup? The anticipation that...

“Whoa! Dude! You got Maytagged in your Tupperware then Swirilied! You lived to tell… Righteous!” With water pouring out of my mouth, my...

I grew up in the Episcopal Church, where the experience for me centered around the rituals of worship.  The Book of Common Prayer has...

One of the core values of GPPC is “learning from and caring for our church community”. About 30 years ago I was a member of this church...

We are happy to launch a summer blogging series featuring our elders-elect – church officers from our congregation currently in study and...

It is difficult to write briefly about the Sydnors! Margaret, at age 98, does not attend all of our worship services, but reads Carla’s...

That title would suggest a simple idea, a seemingly agreeable one. Yet the words came from Abraham Lincoln as a vision for human rights...

“I take Communion. I just don’t get Communion.” That statement fits across many – most – years of my life. As a little kid in church, I...

Would you believe Betsy Rice’s faith is open to discussion? Betsy, who’s at church most anytime the door’s unlocked; Betsy, who stands...

I watched from the side of the museum gallery as the team found the painting needed to crack the code. They gathered around the clue, and...

When Doug Brown first told me that he directs a choir for 3-5 year olds, I figured he was either intrepid or insane.  Take, for example,...

Blogger’s note: My memories of GPPC are from the decade of the 1960s, just prior to my leaving Richmond after graduating college in...