Not-George
We had a great little family road trip last week. We skipped church in order to drop Zora off for her first full week of overnight church camp in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I figure church skipping is...
View ArticleQuitting My Fitbit
Suburban California's version of a runner's aid station: neighborhood plum trees. A photo posted by Erica Schemper (@eschemper) on May 30, 2016 at 11:04am PDT I bought a fitbit a little over a year ago...
View ArticleIf Mr. Trump Were in My Youth Group…
Here’s my thing about Trump and the second amendment threat. I filter pretty much everything I hear right now through the perspective of a parent. That’s the main gig in my life. So, when I heard what...
View ArticleYour Own Patch of Earth
Jeremiah 29:4-9 Woodside Road UMC, Redwood City, CA I’m not going to lie: I spend too much time on the interwebs. In my defense, after years of being a pastor, an extrovert who likes being with people,...
View ArticleNot So Silent: Welcoming Children to Christmas Eve
Dearest church people, Get ready. In two days it’ll be Christmas Eve, your congregation will welcome people in for one of the biggest nights of the year. Get ready: you may be blessed with an overrun...
View ArticleYou at the Beginning
Jenn, who I adore, is doing this 52 pictures in a year project, and I am shamelessly copying her. (It should be noted that Jenn is likely to follow through on this and do it all year, and I might not...
View ArticleFamily History
About a decade ago, I was visiting California for a conference, and heard a speaker there talk about his family history of being incarcerated during WWII because they were Japanese American. As I sat...
View ArticleWhere Jesus would put the kids in worship
Churches with a play space in the worship space: so good. (And a hill I’m willing to die on in future pastoral leadership!) A post shared by Erica Schemper (@eschemper) on Jul 16, 2017 at 10:35am PDT...
View ArticleReading for 2018
A post shared by Erica Schemper (@eschemper) on Jan 4, 2018 at 3:53pm PST My reading habits have taken a dive in the last few years. I’ve been parenting a baby or a toddler continually since 2006, when...
View ArticleEnough…and then some
Matthew 14: 13-21 Isaiah 55: 1-5 Erica Schemper Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, San Carlos, CA “It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story...
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