Pastors Desk 9-18-16

by | Sep 18, 2016 | Pastor's Desk

One stormy night many years ago an elderly couple entered the lobby of a small hotel and asked for a room. The clerk explained that because there were three conventions in town, the hotel was filled. He added, “But I can’t send a nice couple like you out...

Vatican Corner 9-11-16

by | Sep 11, 2016 | Vatican Corner

VATICAN CORNER In April, 2000, the Pokémon kiddie trading-card and computer game craze was soaring in Italy. Worried parents thought it was the work of the devil, but Pope John Paul II decided the game was good for children. The Vatican gave its blessing to the game...

Pastors Desk 9-11-16

by | Sep 11, 2016 | Pastor's Desk

For two days in October of 1987, not just a community, not just a state, not just a nation, but the entire world was watching with bated breath the drama of an eighteen-month-old little girl named Jessica McClure who had fallen twenty-two feet through an eight-inch...