Here we go gratefully rushing out of our Covid social distancing, but the traffic jams are back and people are once again tearing up the rat race track. This time we race with some lingering fears. Once again we need to remind ourselves of the need for Sabbath, the need to pause and to recharge ourselves and our faith. There was an emptiness in social isolation and similarly there is an emptiness in the gas-and-go pace of life.

           For the first time in well over a year we have the opportunity to enjoy Sabbath together in the sanctuary this Sunday at our 10:30 in-person worship (which will also be live streamed to the Ark and Dove You Tube channel and Facebook live). One last reminder that we are limiting attendance for now and so we are asking you to make reservations- click here. I look forward to greeting you by live stream or in person. I am grateful for the many ways we can share Sabbath at Ark and Dove.

Once there was a man who filmed his vacation.

He went flying down the river in his boat

with his video camera to his eye, making

a moving picture of the moving river

upon which his sleek boat moved swiftly

toward the end of his vacation. He showed

his vacation to his camera, which pictured it,

preserving it forever: the river, the trees,

the sky, the light, the bow of his rushing boat

behind which he stood with his camera

preserving his vacation even as he was having it

so that after he had had it he would still

have it. It would be there. With a flick

of a switch, there it would be. But he

would not be in it. He would never be in it.

Peace of Christ,

tstern@arkanddove.org

We also hope that you will join us for Vacation Bible School on July 12-16. Registration is now live on our homepage. Friends are welcome to join. We will have a large tent, under which we will have lessons, crafts, and games. Christina Nelson and Sara Fox are looking for leaders. Please contact them at: (christinajoy87@gmail.com / christianed@arkanddove.org).

Peace,

jnelson@arkanddove.org

PRAYERS OF HEALING AND SUPPORT for Patty and Steve Plander; Margaret Floyd; Alex Strobel; Ardeth and Bob Johns; Steven Kirby; Arlyce Lohr; Krista Klohr; Christa Kronser; Michelle Schoonmaker; Dick Paronto; Richard and Edie Budd; Vaughn Brown; Paul Doughty’s mother, Ruth; Tina Anthis’ father, Steve Bissel; Camille Dubois’ parents; Debbie Saylor’s sister, Christine; Ryan Stavely’s father, Brian; Todd Stubbs’ stepfather, David Hopsicker; Sue Hanburger’s daughter, Megan; a member of the Tardiff family; Dionne Whitby's daughter and niece, Jannah; Brooks Emrick and her sister, Susan; Amanda Crose’s mother, and grandmother, Betty Davis; Dotty Kaufman, her son, Bill, daughter-in-law, Carol, granddaughter, Sarah, and grandson Nathan; Donna Anderson's brother-in-law, Tom Brown; Steve Debus' cousin-in-law, Stephan; Kathy Miller’s brother-in-law, Jeff Miller; Lewis Shorter and Lewis Shorter’s niece, Jennifer Schwandt-Gayle; Bob Fuller’s brother, Joe Fuller; Dot Forloines’ family, granddaughter Melisa Tucker Saatthoff and her great-grandson Luke; Debbie Arey’s sister; Debbie and Bruce Arey’s friend, David, their family in Connecticut, and daughter, Allison; Linda Taylor’s mother, Izola; Kennon Bauman’s uncle, Dan Johnston; Amy Goldberg’s grandmother, Ruth Cooper; Christy Yeager’s mother, Linda Jordan; Linda Jordan’s niece, Bonnie; Diane Johnson's Uncle Ed, Aunt Janet, and cousin Richard; Shelley Franklin's father; Hollis Butterworth’s daughter, Rachel Mershont; Amanda Wehage’s sister and father, Dave; Laurie Barrow’s nephew, Gunther Kurtz; Sabonna Keeney’s mother; Bernabe and Griselda Solano, and Griselda's sister, Irma; Laura Doughty’s brother-in-law, Carl Hahn, and Paul Doughty’s mother, Ruth Doughty; Laura Willoughby's father, Norman; Bill Ruble’s mother, Mary Jane Weathers; Ann Hirschy’s aunt, Cindy, and brother; Christina Nelson’s grandmother, Pat Dole; Kelly Burnett’s nephew, Justin; Patriceo Green’s cousin, Philip Brown; Lou Kareha’s aunt, Judy Kochis, and cousin, Thomas; Cheryl and Doug Walcutt’s grandchild, Gray Adacutt; Cheryl Walcutt’s mother, nephew, and sisters; Erika Sealing's grandmother, Margaret Schade; Lourdes Cordero's granddaughter; Linnie Girdner and Jan Hof’s friend, Grace Ligon; Diane Johnson’s neighbor, Annie; Paula Griggs’ friends Char and Jackie Pullen; Kim Young’s friend, Kurt Kost; and Maren McGillivray-Stubbs’ best friend’s father, Gentry Sims.

THE LOVE AND SUPPORT OF THE CONGREGATION go out to the Rampmeyer and Klohr Families upon the death of Joshua Rampmeyer, the 12-year-old nephew of Roxanne Klohr.

PRAYERS OF HEALING for those with COVID-19 including: Debbie Arey’s friend, Amer.

PRAYERS OF LOVE, SUPPORT AND PROTECTION for all essential workers around the world, including: Mike Stiegler; Bill Gaurin; Tricia Gray’s mother, Sabrina Johnson; Becca Distad; Jack Burnett; Caitlyn Bussey; Emily Sanders; Audrey Miller; Linda Jordan’s nephew, Russell; the Ralston’s family members and friends; Simone Stiegler’s friend, Jean Marie; Amy Grimm’s mother; Jeff Grimm; Amy Goldberg’s brother, Joseph Alexander, and parents, Michael and Maryann Cooper; Judy Cooper’s daughter; John Mikeska’s son, Jonathan; and Hollis Butterworth’s sister-in-law, Cyndie.