MEET OUR CONTRACTED PASTOR
Pastor David Sprang will serve as our contracted pastor. He is retired and will lead worship two to three times a month and does pastoral care, administration, and other things as needed. He previously served congregations in Michigan and Ohio and has retired from the bishop's staff at the North/West Lower Michigan Synod.
Contact information:
email- revdsprang@gmail.com,
cell phone- 989-980-0139
...... and our supply pastor
Pastor John Soyster will be offering us
worship leadership one or two
Sundays a month as a supply pastor.
You can learn more about Pastor John here
As we emerge from Winter, change is in the air. As I write this it is March 20 and officially the first day of Spring. And yes, in Michigan, it snowed. But I can see my tulips and daffodils emerging from their winter sleep, and a grove of maple trees I pass on my way from home to the church is tapped for sap and syrup making. We change from March to April in the middle of Lent, with Palm/Passion Sunday on April 13, followed by Holy Week, and Easter on April 20. Many parents of school aged children, and many college students have taken time for a Spring Break. The Canadian Goose couple that spends summers at the pond in the cemetery by my house have retuned.
The change from Winter to Spring reminds us of Jesus resurrection at Easter. No matter how severe the winter, how cold and barren the ground is, or how covered with snow. When the sun returns north it warms the earth and plants and animals begin a new or rebirth. On April 20 we will again hear the Gospel message:
1 On the first day of the week, at early dawn, [the women] came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in, they did not find the body. 4 While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them. 5 The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. 6 Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, 7 that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.” 8 Then they remembered his words, 9 and returning from the tomb, they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest.
Jesus dying on the cross for the sake of the world would have been enough, but God, who has been with us all our lives, has another surprise.
God is with us even when we feel alone or abandoned. I pray that God surprises you once in a while and you find that God is closer than you think. Recognize God in the sounds of the wind, the sightings of new growth, in the laughter of children, and the embrace of a loved one.
Pastor Sprang
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