Youth
Camp wraps up season
And it was good. Already August has brought the close of Camp Cross’s main season and with it the bittersweet feeling of the end of an unforgettable summer. As we started out this summer exploring God’s New Creation, it seemed as though the summer’s newness would never end. Now, looking back, it stands out as [...]
Congregational Development
Learning to grow our congregations, naturally
The thermometer had just hit 104 degrees when Canon Holladay Sanderson and I drove into Vancouver, WA, in July for a three-day training session on Natural Church Development (NCD). The improvised classroom in the worship space at Cascade Park Baptist Church, though, was cool and comfortable as we settled in with eight others for a [...]
Bishop's Notes
Treasuring the old, making room for the new
Some things we plan. Some just happen. Either way, we somehow sense, and even know, what is right at the time.
To be more specific, Gloria and I are moving in again. We moved in for the first time in August 2000. After driving through breathtakingly beautiful country and spectacular, yet ominous, fires in the Bitterroots [...]
