The last few weeks the choir has been singing “Where Two or Three Are Gathered in My Name” as a prelude. It’s a beautiful little song from Ghana by a composer named Bayiga Bayiga. I hope everyone was paying attention, because the whole congregation will sing it as a gathering hymn in a few weeks. […]

Ministry Reports from the November 2007 Council meeting are available for you to read here:
Jessica Bratt, Pastoral Resident
Brion Brooks, Pastoral Resident
Jana Vander Laan, Pastoral Resident
Judy Ko, Minister to Youth
Janifer De Vos, Minister of Education
Naji Umran, Minister of Outreach
Janice McWhertor, Minister of Congregational Life
Greg Scheer, Minister of Worship (PDF)

Council Report for August – October, 2007
When I first started at COS, my mother asked me, “So how do you figure out where you’ll become involved, or they just tell you?” “Well”, I replied, “ it’s a little of both.” I told her to imagine a buffet line filled with […]

Council Report for July-October 2007
To be brief is more difficult and time consuming than to pour out on paper all of the stuff that’s in your head in an undisciplined way. I can usually take the easy approach, but this time, as I write my report I’ve had to compact […]

Well, I am indeed still settling in here at COS. There are still so many people to meet, I’m trying to take it a little bit at a time (mainly so once I meet someone I actually remember having met them, otherwise what’s the point, right?). Youth group is in […]

As I drove down Burton Street the other day amid falling leaves and late afternoon sun, I was suddenly struck by the fact that this is my first autumn as an orphan. What an odd thing. My father died in May of 2003, and my mother this past […]