Try It! – Epiphany News December 19 – 28
I rather like playing around with “what could have been” in my imagination, especially if I am resisting going to sleep. What might have happened if I had resisted my hesitation, plucked up my courage and said or done something? But why do I do this? What’s the point of rehearsing what could have been, […]
Announcing This Year’s Epiphany Gift – Math Education at Coates Elementary – Epiphany News December 12 – 21
Every Christmas Eve Church of the Epiphany gives a gift to one of our mission or outreach partners. Past gifts have included scholarships for students at Uganda Christian University, a car for a Turkish pastor, cots for our area’s homeless residents, funding a safe-haven for war refugees from Ukraine and equipping a 900 book English-learning […]
Christmas at Epiphany 2025
Epiphany will be celebrating Christmas with two services on Christmas Eve and the musical Nine Lessons and Carols service on December 28. 5:00pm – Family Christmas Eve Service: This service will include Epiphany’s children and young adults in our worship and music leadership. Music will be include traditional favorites led by Epiphany’s contemporary musicians. 9:00pm […]
Stewardship, Sunday Changes in January, Annual Meeting Report – Epiphany News December 5 – 14
Stewardship Sunday this Sunday; Vestry Minutes and Members; Christmas Caroling December 13; Christmas Flowers; Angel Tree Gifts due this Sunday; Sign Up for Stand in the Gap ministry; Help restock Coates food pantry by December 8; Pick up an Advent Devotional; This week we remember Richard Baxter (November 12, 1615 – December 8, 1691)
God is Generous! – Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and this Sunday is Annual Meeting! – Epiphany News November 28 – December 7
If you haven’t had a chance to see it yet, let me recommend to you Robin and Penny’s story about how God’s generosity has touched their lives. It is so fun to hear from people we know how God has been faithful to them over many years. Thanks for sharing, Robin and Penny. Also, let […]
Flying Nuns – Epiphany News November 21 – 30
Earlier this year, I read a fascinating book called “They Flew” by Carlos Eire. His subtitle is “A History of the Impossible.” In “They Flew,” I met dozens of Christians, mostly Italian or Spanish nuns and monks, who were known to levitate, bilocate, and otherwise take a break from the laws of physics. Eire isn’t […]
Staff Transitions – Saying “Thank You” this Sunday – Epiphany News November 14 – 23
This Sunday we will say thank you to two special members of Epiphany’s staff as they officially retire after years of volunteer ministry; November 30 – Annual Meeting, Bishop John Guernsey preaching, Christmas Kids Activity; Thanksgiving gathering; Seniors lunch at IHOP Chantilly; Efaw and Greenwood funerals scheduled; Advent Class – Learn to Release Painful Memories
Remembering Phebe and Gary – Epiphany News November 7 – 16
Last week, I wrote about our practice of remembering family and friends who have died in the past year on All Saints Sunday. This week, we will be giving thanks for two more saints on Sunday morning. Gary Efaw, who died on Monday evening, and Phebe Greenwood, who died on Sunday afternoon. Both Gary and […]
For All the Saints – Epiphany News October 31 – November 9
This coming Sunday is All Saints Sunday. One of the practices we have had at Epiphany over the last few years is to remember before God friends and family who have died by reading their names out during the prayers on All Saints. I find this to be a moving time in worship. There is […]
Farewell to a Church Triumphant
The current run of failures in leadership and difficulties applying our disciplinary processes won’t be the death of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). Far from it. I make that prediction as one of a small group of people who witnessed the formation of the ACNA up close. The truth is, we have survived […]