by The Rev. J.C. Austin | Apr 26, 2024
A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: A ‘welcoming’ church Back when I was in conversation with this church’s search committee here about the possibility of serving as your pastor, one of the first and most consistent themes that I heard was that this is a...
by The Rev. J.C. Austin | Apr 21, 2024
I know that every generation thinks that the music of its high school and college years was particularly important, but as someone who was in college in the early 1990s, I feel a particularly strong claim to that. In those years, the alternative rock movement that had...
by The Rev. J.C. Austin | Apr 19, 2024
A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: THE RIGHT WAY TO DO IT Friends, as I mentioned in worship last week, our next Community Meeting regarding the “Building Community” campus redevelopment project is being postponed from April 23 because of concerns from a few...
by The Rev. J.C. Austin | Apr 14, 2024
Before I went to seminary, I served as the interim youth director at my home church in Atlanta for a year while they were in between permanent staff. It was a perfect arrangement for both of us; I had just returned from a year in Australia and had decided to go to...
by The Rev. J.C. Austin | Mar 31, 2024
We’ve all been “perplexed” at times. Where did I leave my keys? How can Route 22 ALWAYS have a traffic jam at Airport Road, no matter what time it is? What am I not getting about Pete Davidson’s attractiveness? To be perplexed is to be puzzled or confused. It...
