Religious Education News for April The forsythia is blooming in my neighbor’s yard, the grass is green, and I’ve packed most of my winter clothes away in the attic.  I know, you can blame me if we have a blizzard later this week.  But do you know what this means?   It means that life is just about to start zooming forward.  I’m seeing the end of summer in my rearview mirror already, and it is

Notes from the Grove – Religious Education News Spring is in the air!  Can you feel it coming?  The March wind is certainly blowing today!  We are back in the meetinghouse and back in our RE classes.  Here is an overview of what is going on… During the Sunday service, the children are meeting with their teachers to resume their curriculum classes in their Groves – Greenwood for children ages 3-6, Maplewood for children 7-11,

As we enter year three of this pandemic, I have spent time thinking about how much my role of Music Director has changed from when I was first hired. Some of my duties remain the same:  scheduling pianists, finding special music singers/instrumentalists, and working with the choir, though one that is much reduced in size. However, I can now add many technical skills to my musical bag of tricks which will come in useful moving

Religious Education News, February 2022 It is an icy, snowy, freezing cold weekend – but there are birds singing outside and the sun didn’t set until 5PM yesterday!  Spring is definitely on its way.  On the first of February we pass the midpoint between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, so we have turned a corner of sorts in the dark half of the year and are beginning to climb back up towards the