I am very excited to invite my good friend, Rev. Laura Mariko Cheifetz, as our preacher this upcoming Sunday. Laura is a proven leader in the church and a dynamic speaker. 

Laura currently serves as Assistant Dean of Admissions, Vocation, and Stewardship at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. This is another chapter in her ministry of helping people of all ages and background discern God’s calling for their lives, and equipping them to live our that call in community. 

So I hope you’ll join us on Sunday as she brings a message about some of Jesus’ disciples —how their ways of following him were different, how we might understand and appreciate their different paths and find guidance for our own faithful living in their stories. 

In hope, 

Hardy

Please join us immediately following the service for our Coffee Hour

(in-person in the sanctuary or online via Zoom).

bit.ly/SVPCCoffeeHour

“There are so many ways to love God.”

Author & Professor David Dark

Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to what he was saying. But Martha was distracted by her many tasks; so she came to him and asked, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her then to help me." But the Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her."