Letters from the Pastor

Dear Church Family, A unified church pleases God! In Psalm 133, the psalmist reminds us of this truth. The following is from The Message paraphrase by Eugene Peterson: 1-3 How wonderful, how beautiful, when brothers and sisters get along! It’s like costly anointing...

Dear Church Family, At each quarterly congregational meeting, ministerial staff members bring brief reports to provide an overview of their ministry activity over the previous quarter. On Sunday January 29, 2023, I presented the following thematic report to offer...

Dear HRBC Family, In their classic book, Lead Like Jesus, Ken Blanchard and Phil Hodges offer four domains of leading like Jesus: heart, head, hands, and habits. They state that the internal domains, the motivations of our hearts and the leadership perspective of our...

Dear HRBC Family, I love our church! As your pastor, I consider it a great joy to serve alongside our congregation! Thank you for the ways you live out our guiding, North Star statement: “Loving, Understanding and Empathizing with our community ... and the world.”...

Dear HRBC Family, Have you ever made plans, only to have them disrupted? Perhaps there was an illness, a job situation or a cost increase that caused things to change or to be put on hold. The COVID-19 pandemic (hereafter simply referred to as “covid”) taught us all...