Sep 16, 2026 | Pastor's Corner
Refill This may start off sounding like a commercial, and maybe it is. I’ve enjoyed going to Refill, a local establishment in Staunton that sells products in bulk without the plastic containers. The idea is that you go in with your clean container and fill it with...
Sep 8, 2025 | Pastor's Corner
A Chalice and a Horse As I unpacked the camper from my recent time away, it was like Christmas all over again as I remembered the things that I purchased along the way. I unpacked maple syrup from Vermont, rocks from a beach, a T-shirt from Maine, playing spoons from...
Apr 8, 2025 | Pastor's Corner
Water bottles and Easter The other day I was playing some disc golf, and when I returned to my truck I was very thirsty. After digging through my important junk on the backseat floorboard, I finally found a water bottle. The problem was, I didn’t know how long that...
Sep 11, 2024 | Pastor's Corner
Faith Formation at Home In our two-year Confirmation curriculum, one year is focused on Luther’s Small Catechism (The Ten Commandments, The Apostles’ Creed, The Lord’s prayer, Confession, Holy Baptism, and Holy Communion). The other year is focused on what it means...
May 28, 2024 | Pastor's Corner
God’s Wordle My son Jake and I have this thing we do every day. We play a game on our phone called “Wordle”. It’s a short and simple game where you try to guess a five-letter word and you have six attempts to complete the task. For us, it’s not just a matter of...
Oct 26, 2023 | Pastor's Corner
Those shiny headstones! If you’ve been by Salem lately, I’m sure you’ve noticed a change in a portion of the cemetery. Recently, the Cemetery Committee contracted a company to clean the headstones in one of our older sections. This section is right beside the road...
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