2014

Telling Our Stories

Stories of faith by members of the Ginter Park Presbyterian Church Family.

Dec 27, 20147 min read

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Blog - Teen

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

Dec 20, 20143 min read

Voices in the Waiting Time

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...

Dec 6, 20144 min read

Feasts of Love and Other Stimuli

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

Nov 22, 20144 min read

Grace Comes to Meet Us in the Mess

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

Nov 8, 20146 min read

Every Sticker Has a Story

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...

Oct 11, 20144 min read

They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Serve

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

Sep 27, 20142 min read

Nurture and Love

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...

Sep 13, 20144 min read

Preparing for Service

“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...

Aug 15, 20143 min read

Seeds and Other Thoughts

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

Aug 4, 20145 min read

Speaking Fluently

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

Aug 2, 20144 min read

Changing it Up

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

Jul 19, 20142 min read

Walking, Talking, Holding

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...

Jul 6, 20142 min read

From the Ground Up

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

Jun 21, 20145 min read

A Feast of Faith

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...

Jun 6, 20141 min read

Fairness and Fairness only

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

May 10, 20143 min read

A Sacramental Struggle

“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...

Apr 26, 20144 min read

Betsy's Credo

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...

Apr 12, 20143 min read

Finding the Lost

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...

Mar 29, 20144 min read

Seeing God in the Preschool Choir

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,...

Mar 15, 20143 min read

Growing Up in Church - A Message to the Youth of GPPC

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