Greg Middlestetter

The interior sanctuary ceiling began showing signs of water staining several months ago.  This month (January, 2025) the Church Board chose a contractor to replace our shingle roofing (not the flat roof portion).  Before the new shingles can be installed there needs to be some modification / repair of the roof line.   We are…

In light of the 2024 election results I have one thing to say:   “Praise the Lord!”  … but so that there is no misunderstanding, I will add a clarification.  I am not pleased with who won or who lost the vote.  I am praising the Lord because God is in control of the affairs…

I see that I’ve been negligent!   I’ve not posted anything on this page for way too long.   Here’s an update: Due to some budget shortfalls the Oregon Conference found it necessary to restructure how pastors were assigned to the local churches.  What that meant was that I now am responsible for three area…

Pastor’s Page   2-11-2022   Every year my sermons for the month of February focus on relationships – sort of built around the Valentines Day theme.  I’m glad that pastor Del started us off this month with his sermon dealing with Love Languages.   Tomorrow I’ll be talking about Communication Strategies For A Lasting Marriage.  …

Church volunteers have been shopping, putting food items into “Care bags” and then delivering them to families in our community.  Those are the COVID CARE PACKAGES that Judy Hernandez and a host of helpers have been distributing to families with COVID in our community.  So far they have delivered to 47 different homes (with 146 residents in…

Here’s a quiz to prepare you for tomorrow’s sermon:1. You’ve heard of “Gold Finger” … but who had a gold nose?2. Who fought a thousand duels because of comments about his nose?3. How long is the longest nose recorded?4. What’s the name of the preacher for whom the phrase,  “Keep your nose out of my…

Wednesday,  January 5th, 2022      The COVID virus has begun to impact several of our church families.   It looks like it began spread among our congregation somewhere around the Christmas holiday events.  In an attempt to keep the virus from being spread to more families I am requesting that we put our FELLOWSHIP…

Sabbath is here – Praise The Lord!   We survived another week … all on our own – or did we do it all on our own?   We got up each day this past week and went to work or took care of other responsibilities.   We fed ourselves, cared for our basic needs.…

If we could see into the future we would likely turn and run the other way… if we could.  At least that might be how some have felt about the year 2020.  Unforeseen and unimaginable circumstances have overtaken us this year.  For several months our church was closed on Sabbaths and worship services took place online…

    Here’s how you can watch my message tomorrow… Thank you to Clayton Young who worked a couple of hours Friday evening to get me hooked up on YouTube – Live Streaming.   We hoped that would work so that everyone could watch from whatever device you have … but that just didn’t work out!…