Older Adult Ministries

Transforming faith is an adult task! | By the Rev. Paul Graves “When I was a child, my speech, feelings, and thinking were all those...

Nurturing Elders and Others: Lean to the Other Side! By the Rev. Paul Graves As a wood-worker, I make a pretty fair preacher! That’s to say, wood-working...

Rosalee Mohney extends a warm invitation to older adults for the annual Lazy Daze Retreat held at Lazy F Camp and Retreat Center. Mark your calendars; this year's retreat will take place September 12-14.

Portrait of artist Henry Moore, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Nurturing Elders and Others: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall By the Rev. Paul Graves | Photo courtesy of...

The Rev. John Brewer, Bishop Cal McConnell, and Mary Tapp share a moment of laughter during Tapp’s retirement party at PNWUMC in 2010. Nurturing Elders...

"As I watched immigrant children sitting silent in cages on our southern borders, I could only imagine what grief and fear their silence betrayed," writes the Rev. Paul Graves in a letter to his grandkids. In his message Graves considers the power of sacred silence, both in times where it is a reprieve to a noisy world and in moments where it is an alternative to a silence born in fear.

Nurturing Elders and Others: When Jesus is the Question!? By The Rev. Paul Graves | Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons In a recent interview on National Public...

The Rev. Paul Graves has an occasional practice of sharing a letter to his three grandchildren in his column for The Spokesman Review. In his most recent, he explores confrontation as a practical and spiritual matter.

Rosalee Mohney shares early details on a new Older Adults Retreat being offered at Lazy F Camp and Retreat Center September 18-20. The over-arching them for the Retreat is "What’s Next?" and registration is already available for those who like to plan ahead!

Learning to Walk in the Dark By the Rev. Paul Graves “Then I said to myself, ‘Oh, he even sees me in the dark! At night I’m...