Fairplain Presbyterian Church

December 2022

  • While Mary Slept: A story for Christmas Eve

    By Rev. David Schell, for Christmas Eve, 2022. Joseph stood over the manger looking at his baby boy. Well, his in every sense but one. After all the fussing over him from his Bethlehem family, Aunt Elizabeth had finally chased them all to bed and given him and Mary a moment’s peace – a moment…

  • The 400 Not-So-Silent Years

    But when the fullness of time had come, God sent [God’s] Son, born of a woman, …so that we might receive adoption as [God’s] children.-Galatians 4:4-6 Dear friends, When I was growing up, I learned about the “400 Silent Years” between the time of Malachi (the last book in our Old Testament) and the birth…