URC Weekly 2/20/10: URC Winter Olympics 2010

URC Weekly 2/20/10: URC Winter Olympics 2010

Hi Family, Praise God for last week:  At Agape Home Mission, we made new friendships and were given the honor of “touching” those whom society has abandoned because of homelessness or addiction.  However, didn’t they “touch” us, as well?  As they sang hymns with voices and instruments that weren’t especially impressive, but with a passion [...]

URC Weekly 2/14/10: Ash Wednesday

URC Weekly 2/14/10: Ash Wednesday

Hi Family, Great time celebrating our awesome sisters on Saturday, though the brothers didn’t answer the wild, chanting calls to perform a song/dance (except HYONROH!!!).  Now we go into the season of Lent, the 46 days of reflection, repentance, fasting, and prayer that lead up to Easter.  It’s a time when Jesus calls us to [...]

URC Weekly 2/7/10: Saint Valentine

URC Weekly 2/7/10: Saint Valentine

Hi Family, Saint Valentine was a priest who was martyred in Rome in AD 269.  His life and death had nothing to do with sentimental love, but everything to do with love for His God.  Then someone added the story that before he died, he miraculously healed his jailer’s daughter.  The legend grew that he [...]

URC Weekly 1/31/10: Oh When the Saints Go Marchin’ In…

URC Weekly 1/31/10: Oh When the Saints Go Marchin’ In…

Hi Saints, OK, it’s the title Paul often calls the believers of the first church, but it’s also the team that’s gonna win the Superbowl, BABY!!!!!!!!!!  What’s a better than Saints (=the church) being redeemed (Superbowl victory after devastation of Katrina) in a challenge they have no hope against (Colts)?  Am I alone on this [...]