Ginter Park Presbyterian Church

Our church, Ginter Park Presbyterian, owns a half-acre of undeveloped land one block away from the main church property. Church members...

The work of so many GPPC members on the session and on the committees of our church reminds me of the gospel story about the friends who...

The last 20 months have been hard on me as well as others. Recently I started thinking how thankful I have been for GPPC over those 20...

You may recognize that phrase on a name tag. But I first saw it in an English-Khmer book that my dad was given in a refugee camp. It's...

Is it strange to say that I missed it? Being a part of Session, that is. Who wants to be in more meetings? This guy (see photo). Six...

Author Brene Brown talks about the difference between fitting in and true belonging. Fitting in takes lots of forms. Sometimes it’s based...

Loretta and I just finished watching Marvel’s WandaVision series. It begins with reality viewed through a strange and quizzical lens,...

If my past year had a prologue, it might have been coffee with Ann Knox at Early Bird Biscuit Company: maskless, at a tiny table that...

As Epiphany approaches, GPPCers offer reflections on the Epiphany star they drew from the basket in worship a year ago. This is our...

As Epiphany approaches, GPPCers offer reflections on the Epiphany star they drew from the basket in worship a year ago. The link for the...

What’s your story? One dictionary says a story is an arrangement of words that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of...

Here is a Spotify "Thankfulness Playlist", which has been compiled by our Youth. The songs on this playlist are those that speak to our...

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken away much we share as a community of faith. What I miss most is the ability to gather in our sanctuary...

One of my earliest money stories involves shame and restoration – the theme that we explored in worship this past week and in our weekly...

Last week’s Money Stories zoom discussion spilled past its cutoff time into emails among the group. In the midst of those, John Marriner...

In the Money Stories study group this week, we looked at a Leviticus passage that describes (and prescribes) the year of Jubilee....

I never realized how quietly the acquisitive consumerist values of a capitalist economy had taken up residence in my heart and soul until...

We all have a money story.  Sometimes our story seems like one of scarcity, sometimes it seems like manna.  Sometimes it is fearful and...

In this God-moment – this kairos – God is undoing us. God is remaking us. Among our congregation, as in our city and world, are members...

Dr. David Richardson died last weekend after a long and wonderfully full life much devoted to the care and repair of human hearts. He was...