Latest Updates
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Creation Care Blessings
This spring has brought exciting progress to the Ocean View UMC Creation Care Team’s environmental stewardship efforts. Our rain barrel is now fully operational, helping us conserve water and care Continue Reading→
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Time with Tara: The Sycamore
Recently, a pastor pointed me to the story of Zaccheus when I was thinking about access to Jesus. You remember that Jesus was passing through the town, walking down the Continue Reading→
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Time with Tara: Miracles, Mysteries, and a Myth Undone
“I’d like to order One Miracle, please.” If only this were the way. We see a deep need from a friend or in the community, and we simply order one Continue Reading→
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Time with Tara: Darkness Before the Dawn?
Dear Friends,I am not a poet or psalmist, but I’m trying my hand at writing a psalm/poem for Holy Week. Maybe you’ll be inspired to write your own. Maybe something Continue Reading→
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Anti-Greed Gospel In-Person Workshop
Clergy and laity are invited to attend a day-long, in-person work session with Dr. Malcolm Foley focused on “How the Church Can Create a New Way Forward.” Saturday, March 21, Continue Reading→
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Time with Tara: Opening Space
Dear Friends, As we journey through Lent, I’m writing to you from Schuyler, Nebraska. Yes, that Schuyler—the place where some of the beef for the Angus Barn in Raleigh originates! Continue Reading→
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Time with Tara: Between Stations
“Let’s take the train,” they said. “It’ll be fun,” they said. The Cabinet is traveling to Epworth-By-The-Sea. It is fun! The Amtrak train hums beneath my feet as the landscape Continue Reading→
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Time with Tara: An “Other Way”
But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the little clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to rule in Israel, whose Continue Reading→
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Time with Tara: Expectations
Expectations are turned on their heads during Advent. The tiny, newborn baby arrives as the Savior of the world, born among the livestock. God with us arrived in the most Continue Reading→