FROM PASTOR MIKE’S DESK: Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ! Are you exhausted yet from all the Christmas shopping and advertisement which has been bombarding us since before Halloween???? Are you tired of trying to plan who is going where for Christmas dinner or what you are going to eat??? Are you tired of listening…

FROM PASTOR MEYER’S DESK: It hangs on the wall just to the right as you enter the room and just to the left as you leave.  It’s very shiny and I suspect it is polished regularly.  It has a white rope hanging from it and a plaque above it that reads: Life is not measured…

FROM PASTOR MIKE’S DESK: Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ, One of the things I love about being a dad is that I can be a kid with my kids, which if you ask my wife, me being a kid is something I am pretty good at and it is something I do often. Another…

FROM PASTOR MEYER’S DESK: Glioblastoma…it’s a word that up until recently I was completely unfamiliar with.  Had somebody asked me what a glioblastoma was, my best guess would have been that it sounds like a weapon straight out of a Star Wars movie.  But on July 23 I found out what it is.  It’s the…

FROM PASTOR MIKE’S DESK: Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ, Not that long ago, Pastor Meyer went through the foot pain of planters facetious.  I was right there alongside a bunch of other people giving him a hard time about getting old and falling apart.  Well … the tables have now turned.  I’m not exactly…

FROM PASTOR MEYER’S DESK: You may not be aware of this, but your two pastors have taken on a new responsibility. The idea for it was first presented to the pastors of the Salem Ministerial Alliance back in January by Corey Harris, one of the 2nd grade teachers at Hawthorn School.  She thought it would…

Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ, I want to share something with you which was placed on my desk a while back.  It is called “The Teenager’s Prayer,” however, I believe that when you read it, you can easily find yourself in it.           Dear God: I find it rather difficult to talk to someone…

FROM PASTOR MEYER’S DESK: Two-word phrases…they punctuate our days as we hear them and use them all the time.  Consider just a few of them: Thank you.  You’re welcome.  Bless you.  Love you.  Let’s go.  Be nice.  Let’s eat.  How sweet!  Watch out! Well, recently I’ve been hearing one two-word phrase in my ongoing battle…

FROM PASTOR MIKE’S DESK: Dear brothers & sisters in Christ! So I’m sure you have all heard the saying when it comes to the month of March … “In like a lion, out like a lamb.”  We use this phrase, but what in the world does it really mean?  When trying to find out the…

FROM PASTOR MEYER’S DESK: It’s a term I had heard plenty of times before, especially since my wife has been working for a podiatrist for the past 25 years.  When she first started working there, she would tell me about all the people who were coming in with “heel pain.”  My initial reaction was always,…