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Earlier this week, a member of our community posted online some information about an issue that is currently being discussed.  Some of the information in the post directly contradicted information that had been publicly discussed by another group in our community.  In today’s world of keyboard warriors, it is not at all uncommon for there… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective July 28, 2022

On three separate occasions in the last few days, I have had the opportunity to spend time catching up with other friends who have lived here on the island for the last fifteen years or more.  With so much change coming at our island from so many different directions, there was something very comforting about… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective July 21, 2022

This has been our week for Vacation Bible School at the church, and we’ve had a blast with a bunch of the island kids.  However, for one of our participants, Monday morning didn’t get off to a very good start.  The tears started to flow less than half-way through the morning, and when I went… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective July 14, 2022

In church this past Sunday, one of our members asked for prayers; first for our church family, and then for the broader island community.  The secret about our sleepy little island has gotten out, and people are visiting here in droves.  Homes that had been on the market for years have been snatched up.  Vacant… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective July 7, 2022

If you had to think back on your life and come up with a list of the most impactful things that you have ever done in your life, what might that list look like? Was it giving birth to your child?  Making a critical decision at work?  Deciding to go to college?  Hopefully, we can… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective June 30, 2022

This upcoming Sunday marks the celebration of our church’s 141st anniversary.  The fact that the church building exists and is still an active place of worship today is remarkable, given the adversity faced when the church was initially founded.  It is a story worth telling, as we set our eyes towards a fantastic weekend. Former… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective June 23, 2022

In a 1989 commercial for Cannon Cameras, young tennis star Andre Agassi emerged from a Lamborghini sportscar and uttered the now infamous phrase “Image is everything.”  It fit with the vanity of the era, and yet with the shallowness that seems to accompany the rise of social media, this ridiculous slogan seems just as prevalent… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective June 16, 2022

In a world of finite resources, especially time and money, how we as individuals choose to allocate or invest those resources is quite important.  We don’t want to be wasteful, and if we are honest, we really prefer to see a return on our investment.  Or, to put it more plainly, we like to see… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective June 9, 2022

With the end of the school year comes various celebrations.  Here on Daufuskie, where the only school that we have is the elementary school, we make a big deal about the “stepping up” ceremony where each child is recognized for completing what is required for the current school year and acknowledging that they are taking… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective June 2, 2022

It seems like it was just yesterday that my family and I moved to Daufuskie, just in time for our oldest daughter to begin kindergarten at the elementary school.  At the time, her sister, just 18 months old, could only gaze longingly at the tiny school bus that would scoop up her big sister and… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective May 26, 2022