Telling Our Stories

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

Oct 22, 20163 min read

Being GPPC - Then and Now

Since moving back to Richmond after almost 20 years away, I’ve been surprised at the frequent and visceral flashbacks to my childhood and...

Oct 8, 20162 min read

Connections Make Us

Being part of GPPC is being connected. This means being connected to God, your church family, the community garden, world missions, the...

Oct 4, 20165 min read

Is World Mission Relevant Today?

This past Sunday’s emphasis on Global Mission and Peacekeeping started a chain of reflections for Glenna Finnicum, and she offered us the...

Sep 17, 20165 min read

Tell Me How You Spent Your Summer

Remember the beginning of the school year when you’d be asked to tell or write how you spent your summer? And everyone groaned. Why is...

Sep 10, 20165 min read

Living into God's Promises

On July 14 my twin sister, Terry Pomeroy, died suddenly while snorkeling in Hawaii. We had just returned from a wonderful 11- day trip to...

Sep 2, 20163 min read

Standing in Two Worlds

A grouchy church member complained to the pastor of another church, “I just don’t get anything out of our worship services so I quit...

Aug 26, 20163 min read

Songs & Signs

I’m willing to take most anything as a sign from God. It’s just up to me to recognize it and then (the hard part) interpret it. This...

Aug 20, 20163 min read

Everything Over and Over Again

I’m a very happily married – 29 years – woman with six children. My family is everything to me, and our lives circle around doing...

Aug 13, 20163 min read

"We Are More Alike"

I am a recently retired Earth and Environmental Science high school teacher, having taught super young people at Hermitage HS on Parham...

Jul 22, 20163 min read

The Point Is Love

I have been reading poetry in the mornings – not something I commonly do in life. A collection of poetry and prose entitled While Still...

Jul 17, 20163 min read

Holy, Holy, Holy

2001-ish, I sat in on a class for Unitarian inquirers – folks exploring the possibility of joining a local congregation. My being a...

Jul 16, 20165 min read

Eyes Wide Open

When I was younger I used to believe that if I covered my eyes when I was scared I could keep myself safe. As long as I didn’t “see” the...

May 28, 20162 min read

The Parable of the Summer Pledge

Now it came to pass that as the time of vacation drew near, a certain member of the church bethought him of cool streams where fish were...

Apr 29, 20162 min read

It's Time for GODSPELL!

The phrase “come and sing about love” has become a mantra for the musical Godspell. Writer Steven Schwartz tells a story of how the...

Apr 14, 20163 min read

Mr. June and Ms. Green

My dad was born a hundred years ago this May in Virginia’s rural Prince Edward County. The stories he told when I was a kid tended toward...

Mar 26, 20164 min read

Food and Water in Haiti

PEOPLE! Everywhere. The streets were teeming with people, motorbikes, and cars. People selling merchandise. Bikes whizzing by in and...

Mar 4, 20162 min read

A Journey, a Party, a Father and a Son

A friend of mine lovingly describes how he met his wife. He was at church choir practice, and a member of the alto section tripped and...

Feb 26, 20162 min read

Pray Without Ceasing

In First Thessalonians, Paul admonishes us to “pray without ceasing.” I have my own set of problems with some of Paul’s assertions, often...

Jan 16, 20163 min read

It's January - Are You Tired?

This starts with me sneaking into church. Not in 1981, when I snuck back into church after a 10-year absence. This was two Sundays ago,...

Dec 31, 20153 min read

What THEY Said

The year in blogspeak: God spoke to me directly and clearly. I would have preferred a ‘yes’ to my ‘no’, but experiencing physically the...