Ginter Park Presbyterian Church

Editor’s Note: Growing up white in 20th century Richmond, Ginter Park Presbyterian Church’s involvement with race relations continues to...

In my family, there are two types of people: storytellers and quilters. Every room in my parents’ home is full of both.  We decorate with...

John answered and said to them all, “As for me, I baptize you with water; but One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to...

I’ll know that spring has officially sprung when I can start sleeping with the windows open again. Open windows have always been one of...

Carla posed some challenging, thought-provoking questions for our opening discussion of the February Session meeting. Unfortunately, or...

I once asked my mother when I was a teenager if she had ever had a direct answer to prayer – one in which she was absolutely certain that...

“Telling Our Stories” shifts for a moment – from individuals’ stories to one of our church: an account of eating and talking that took...

Snippets from some of the year’s story tellers: January I go to church because I love the traditions and stories and the individual...

Saturday, I stood in DC and I marched.  I traveled up there with a group of my classmates to join in the march planned by a group called...

Do you have a favorite Lovefeast memory? A song, a reading, distinctive flavors, your children at a certain age? Do the services instead...

As we approach the holiday season, many people choose to engage in some sort of gratitude practice. For my family, this has traditionally...

Here’s a fun, quirky thing I’ve noticed about our new hymnals: they travel around the sanctuary. I like to read the dedication and...

At Ginter Park Presbyterian Church, the invitation to Communion is a living, breathing, evolving act. Carla makes clear in vivid and...

Ayana Wills offers the final installment in our series of new elder blogs. After a time of training this summer, she was ordained as a...

“Where do you find meaning in your life and at GPPC?  What crossroads do you face within GPPC and what do you hear God calling you to...

Remember when you were a little kid in Sunday School and you planted some flower seeds in a little paper cup? The anticipation that...

“Whoa! Dude! You got Maytagged in your Tupperware then Swirilied! You lived to tell… Righteous!” With water pouring out of my mouth, my...

I grew up in the Episcopal Church, where the experience for me centered around the rituals of worship.  The Book of Common Prayer has...

One of the core values of GPPC is “learning from and caring for our church community”. About 30 years ago I was a member of this church...

We are happy to launch a summer blogging series featuring our elders-elect – church officers from our congregation currently in study and...