My name is Rachel Farnum, and I started as the Minister of Music at the United Methodist Church at Berlin in September! I started playing music at the church a few years ago. I decided to visit one morning to check out the church and walked up to Dianna Parisi, my extremely talented predecessor, and asked if I could join her, and I showed up with my instrument the next week.  The title of my blog post is a reference to a documentary on my favorite classical guitarist, Julian

My name is Lisa Carr Smith. I grew up in the United Methodist Church at Berlin. My twin brother and I were baptized there as infants. I met new friends starting at age three, when I began attending Sunday School (I have a LONG pin to show for it!). I was confirmed as an adolescent on Christmas Eve. My husband and I were married in the church on a hot summer day that featured a storm that left us all in the dark. The church in Berlin is truly my heart’s home, even though my ac