What is a Columbarium?
The word “columbarium” is derived from Latin and translates as compartment house for doves, the gentle birds mentioned in Scripture and recognized internationally as symbols of peace. “Columbarium” means a concentrated area reserved for the internment of a deceased’s cremated remains. Set in a dignified place around the structure of [...]

You may think that anyone who can read English and has the gumption to stand in front of 500 people has all the needed qualifications to read scripture in worship at Church of the Servant.
You would be wrong.
It takes a good deal of preparation and as the French say “I do not know what” to [...]

A few years ago, I was given permission to take a Sunday every two months away from my duties at COS to visit area churches. This gives COS a little break from a constant diet of Greg and gives me a chance to learn from the way other churches worship. Today I visited Vineyard North.
I [...]

For a few years now, Cal Stapert and I have been threatening to plan a worship service using only the music of J. S. Bach. After all, if you can’t do something like this at COS, where can you do it? The congregation’s musical tastes tends toward the classical end of the spectrum, we have [...]