Subject: A Letter from Pastor Erin

A Letter from Pastor Erin

July 24th, 2023 at 4:09 pm EDT

 July 24, 2023 Dear Members and Friends of the Hot Metal Bridge Faith Community,  When I started as your pastor in December 2019, there were so many things we could have never anticipated about our time together: a global pandemic, a racial ...

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July 21st, 2023 at 12:48 pm EDT

 Dear Hot Metal Community, On Sunday, our own Megan Lindsey will be preaching! Here's what she has to say about what to expect! This week we'll be looking at scripture in light of a brand new parenting style: low demand parenting. Whether yo ...

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July 14th, 2023 at 1:34 pm EDT

 Dear Hot Metal Community, This Sunday, we'll continue in the narrative story of Genesis, getting into the nitty gritty of sibling and family dynamics as we turn towards the relationship of Jacob and Esau (Genesis 25:19-34). Maybe because I' ...

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July 7th, 2023 at 1:00 pm EDT

 Dear Hot Metal Community, This week we'll return to the narrative of Genesis, specifically when Abraham's servant is sent out to find a wife for Isaac. Such stories steeped in a cultural context so vastly different from our own can sometimes ...

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June 30th, 2023 at 12:21 pm EDT

 Dear Hot Metal Community, This long holiday weekend, I suspect many of you will be away, taking advantage of God's creation and the opportunity to see family and friends! Yay!  Anticipating a smaller crowd, and the complicated emotions many ...

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June 23rd, 2023 at 12:50 pm EDT

 Dear Hot Metal Community,  This week, we'll continue in our journey through the stories of Genesis - foundational texts not only for our Christian tradition but for our Jewish and Muslim siblings as well. We'll turn briefly from Abraham him ...

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June 16th, 2023 at 12:42 pm EDT

 Pastor Erin is still out of the office this week, but will be back on Sunday!  Come hear our own clerk of Council, Michael Van Ness, preach a word of grace and love! He'll be weaving together the story of Abraham and Sarah, our complicated ...

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June 9th, 2023 at 12:08 pm EDT

 Dear Hot Metal Community,  I'll be away on vacation this weekend, and am excited to leave you in the preaching hands of our own Nathan Rosswog! He'll be using the story of God sending Abraham to a new land to reflect on the hero's journey a ...

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June 2nd, 2023 at 9:49 am EDT

 Dear Hot Metal Community! Happy Pride Month! We'll kick off our celebration of the beautiful diversity of God's children not only by having a presence at Pittsburgh Pride on Saturday, but also with worship together on Sunday! We'll hear the ...

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May 31st, 2023 at 9:10 am EDT

 Join us and our friends at LAMP on Saturday, June 3 in Allegheny Commons for Pittsburgh Pride Revolution! Volunteers for a ministry of presence at our shared booth are needed desperately! Sign up here!!!!!