Winter 2021: Luminous Darkness

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Nourishing Faith

Welcoming All

Doing Good

BEing Church

Epworth Echoes is a newsmagazine published 4 times a year by

Pastor: Steve Reiser

Editorial Board: Shirley Durr, Cynthia Lillquist, Mary Ellen Reetz-Pegues, Brian Lillquist, Saundra Johnson

Photographs: Aaron Jones (cover photo), Nan Rice, Nancy Meisel-Youngman, Cynthia Lillquist, Steve Reiser

Image Attributions:

· aurora borealis photo: (favim.com)

· Year of Justice logo: Steve Reiser

· Boundaries photo: “The Beginning is Near” (imgur.com)

· Warnock/Ossof photo: (Epiphany article) Brynn Anderson/AP Photo

· Devotional photo: “In the Wilderness of Sinai” by Igor Ulanovsky

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Epworth Echoes: Winter 2021

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