Due to the uncertainties of weather and scallop harvesting, our supply of fresh scallops is no longer available requiring us to reluctantly postpone our Scallop Dinner to a later date to be announced. Thank you for your understanding.
Our 1st Annual Community Scallop Dinner is 5:00 PM Saturday, November 17th, featuring our pan-seared fresh scallops for only $15 ($8 child).
Menu: Pan-seared fresh scallops OR Baked Chicken; potato, and vegetable. Dessert, Beverage, Coffee & Tea. (BYOB) Donation: $15 adult, $8 child.
Purchase your Tickets online today, or complete the form in your worship bulletin, or in the church office. For more information, contact Chef Kevin Beare (609-350-0314).
Our message this week from Pastor Kevin builds upon the recent theme of Jesus as the Bread of Life. We will consider Paul’s advice to citizens in Ephesus about using language that lifts people up in love, and do everything we can to put our hands together to ensure that everyone experiences that love. Take a look at the photo above of two clasped hands across a wall separating the Protestant graveyard from the Roman Catholic graveyard in Holland. In 1880, Colonel van Gorkum died in Roermond, Holland, and was buried in the Protestant cemetery because even though his wife Lady van Aefferden was Catholic, neither could be buried together. A few years later she died, but instead of being buried in her family plot, she chose a secluded spot at the wall that separated the Protestants from the Catholics and commissioned some clasped hands to connect with her husband’s tombstone to her’s symbolizing their love and togetherness. Language matters and how we think and how we speak to each other has profound consequences. Let’s speak to each other with love and in dignity and respect. With communion between Protestants and Roman Catholics remaining “closed,” this photo is a powerful symbol both of how far we’ve come and how far we have to go to put our hands together.