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Intervention

This second Sunday in Lent focuses on intervention and the idea that we must rely on help to endure the wilderness.

Wilderness

This Sunday, we begin the season of Lent with a focus on wilderness. What is the wilderness?

Changes

This Sunday is Transfiguration Sunday, a time of exploring the mystery of Jesus on a mountaintop and a profoundly transforming experience.

Sojourn

Dear friends… July brings a particular beginning that is significant to many United Methodists, and the recent conclusion of the California-Pacific Annual Conference makes this even more definitive – particularly for those who participated in the Conference. As your Pastor here at Pacific Beach United Methodist Church, you may know that my “church membership” does not reside at PB UMC or any other local church. My membership resides at the Annual Conference, and it is through our Bishop’s leadership at…

Change

Dear friends… As we enter the month of June, we – once again – experience some of the natural rhythms of change. Tourists have begun to come into our communities; children have completed schoolwork and will transition into their next grade levels; and the “season after Pentecost” has begun. June is also the month that our regional United Methodist Churches will send representatives to the University of Redlands for our Annual Conference. New clergypersons will be Commissioned, some will be…