Phone: (315) 655-3191
FAX: (315) 655-4285
27 Albany Street
P.O. Box 306
Cazenovia, NY 13035
Welcome to 2012 and the beginning of a great new year. 2011 was a year of surprises for us all. The kitchen appliances in the Manse began failing early in the year and were replaced. Snow and ice tore the portico over the door of the Wendell House off the building. One of the furnaces [...]
The anthems are done, the bells and trumpets have been returned snuggly into their cases and the singers and worshipers alike have left the sanctuary. The room that had been overflowing with people and celebration is now quiet and empty. Or is it.
The very message of Easter is that the tomb is empty. So too is this sanctuary. It is
Thank you for your participation in The New Beginnings, “Appreciative Inquiry” on Thursday, January 6th. You really wowed both the assessor, The Reverend Carla Gorrell of National Capital Presbytery, and the facilitator, the Reverend Peter Shidemantle of the Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church in DeWitt, by your presence and your active participation. The data received from [...]
As I think about the new year before us, an image from Anne of Green Gables plays across my mind. In the image a young Anne is walking down the road with her teacher after a particularly difficult and discouraging day in school. As Anne (with an e!) recites her litany of woes, her teacher, [...]
I am delighted that thanksgiving has finally come around again! The past few years my thanksgiving newsletter articles have almost apologized for being thankful. I had to “dig up” things to be thankful for and explain them. Not this year! No more justifications. I am just thankful! I am thankful for this country. I am [...]
Pastor Steve Thomas of the First Presbyterian Church of Cazenovia presents a check for $10,096 to support CazCares to Tom Seeley, Co-Chairman of the Board of CazCares. The donation represents all the proceeds from the second annual Open Your Heart event held at the church’s Meeting House in May. Several event organizers and volunteers [...]
ARBOR DAY Last weekend, the village of Cazenovia added a new tree to its plethora of stunningly beautiful trees. We have trees of all sorts: deciduous, evergreens, flowering, scented, old and young, trees that excite and delight our senses and turn spring days into a virtual kaleidoscope of color and scents. This new tree, [...]
Easter is a quiet, reflective time for me. Outside the flurry of the season’s special worship opportunities and celebrations, my mind and heart strive to “just be still” and ponder the reality of the object of our worship, the resurrection, as well as its meaning to human beings such as us. “Reality” may [...]
I have looked for the rational for “giving up something for Lent” and I get different answers where ever I look. So, here is the Thomas revised and reedited version. We are so busy in this world in which we live that we often “meet ourselves coming.” We are bombarded from all directions with messages [...]
In many respects, 2009 has been a challenging year for us. I think we are all ready to let it go and like Anne of Green Gables, start a new year “fresh, with no mistakes in it.” My prayer is that 2010 will be a new beginning for all of us. We have not done [...]
