Getting Back Online

Piperton UMC has a new web service provider, AMS Computer Services. Alan and Marilyn Vailes run a great outfit and do it for a phenomenal price. One of their services is to provide tons of open-source programming, like WordPress (the program used to run this journal)....

30 Miles from Home with a Briefcase

Scripture: Job 11-12; Acts 15-16 Job 12:1-3 Job answered:    “I’m sure you speak for all the experts,    and when you die there’ll be no one left to tell us how to live. But don’t forget that I also have a brain—    I don’t intend to play...

Exerpt from Bishop Will’s Journal

This is not my entry for the day, but Bishop Will’s. I didn’t put it here because it was a better entry than mine (though it is). I put it here to show you how our leader is thinking, and so that you might be encouraged to think this way as well.   ...

Another Senseless Tragedy

Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have been devastated by this tragic and senseless violence. Shannon Erwin has a cousin at Virginia Tech. His name is Nathan, and he is safe. We offer prayers of thanksgiving for his safety, and for the fact that so many were...

New Pastor, New Decision

Bishop Charlene Kammerer (shown above) is finally satisfied with the situation at South Hill UMC. In recent UMC news, a man who was previously turned away at South Hill (Va.) United Methodist Church because of unrepented sin was received by transfer of membership from...

Friendship Sunday

I just got the pictures from Sunday uploaded to the website. You can view them here. For those of you just hearing about it, we honored the Friendship Class this past Sunday. Each member of the class received a prayer shawl, a rose, and a copy of the collected...