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Poetry & Song on Epiphany Sunday – Jan. 8, 2023

January 15, 2023

Nine member vocal ensemble singing at Raleigh Mennonite

The service on Epiphany Sunday was filled with poetry and singing. Featured in this recording:

Poetry & Song on Epiphany Sunday – Jan. 8, 2023

Tagged With: Epiphany, poetry, song

Pay Attention! – Sept. 18, 2022

September 18, 2022

A dark ocean scape with craggy rocks in the foreground, clouds in the sky with the sun's rays shining out from behind a dark cloud.

In the midst of our busyness it’s easy to miss the beauty of God’s extravagant creation all around us. Through the poetry of Psalm 65 and several more modern authors, Melissa recounts more of her sabbatical journey and encourages us to stop and notice that we too are a part of the joyful abundance of […]

Pay Attention! – Sept. 18, 2022

Tagged With: beauty, Creation, Melissa Florer-Bixler, mindfulness, poetry, Psalms

God shows up at the Table – Aug. 25, 2019

August 25, 2019

Place setting with A Year at the Table in text over the plate

Genesis 1 Melissa’s sermon was preceded by viewing a video featuring James Weldon Johnson reciting the poem The Creation. The poetry of Genesis is where we’re starting our “Year at the Table.” Our lives are dependent upon creation, just as they’re dependent upon a loving, creative God. Every time we eat, we are reminded that […]

God shows up at the Table – Aug. 25, 2019

Tagged With: Creation, Genesis, Melissa Florer-Bixler, poetry, table

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These photos are from last Sunday, but today was P These photos are from last Sunday, but today was Pastor Melissa's last day as pastor of Raleigh Mennonite. We will miss her but wish her all the best as she pursues doctoral studies at Duke Divinity. 

She shared this Jan Richardson blessing with us:

This Day We Say Grateful
A Sending Blessing

It is a strange thing
to be so bound
and so released
all in the same moment,
to feel the heart
open wide
and wider still
even as it turns
to take its leave.

On this day,
let us say
this is simply the way
love moves
in its ceaseless spiraling,
turning us toward
one another,
then sending us
into what waits for us
with arms open wide to us
in welcome
and in hope.

@melissa.florerbixler
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