Staff Blog

HEART’S DELIGHT

By Seth Gatchell | September 8, 2025

Quietly sat, rapt attention, Connection’s joy, His expression! To see His face, and hear His heart, Such rich delight, never depart.   (Luke 10:38-42)

5X5

By Allie Adams | September 6, 2025

One of our core values at PCI is marriage. Pastor Seth has many years of experience in helping people work through issues and strengthening marriages. Once a month, we meet as couples for some teach from Seth, some fellowship time and some sharing time with a goal of connecting with each other and strengthening our…

Is There a Love?

By Seth Gatchell | August 11, 2025

Oh, can it be, a love, that conquers death and fear? A love that transforms us? A love that’s always near? A love that surrounds us? A love that never leaves? A love upholding us? A love, that with us grieves?   A love that shines on truth, that conquers our darkness? Love that finds…

ASPIRATIONS

By Seth Gatchell | August 5, 2025

When I hate my sin more than my pain, And love what I give more than what I gain.   When I value sacrifice more than “success,” And how I serve more than how to impress.   When I value faithfulness more than fame, My reputation more than the hearing my name.   When I…

SEARCHING IN SHADOWS

By Seth Gatchell | July 20, 2025

On every mountain high, and every valley low, On every cruise ship wide, to every country go, To the new career change, to the new, next “real” love, Lasting pleasure his quest; his eyes won’t search above.   The shadow of pleasure is what everyman stalks, Feeling high? Numbing pain? Searching like soaring hawks. Salve…

INDEPENDENCE DAY

By Seth Gatchell | July 7, 2025

July 4, 1776   Oh, Independence Day! Blessed Declaration! The law above a king, blessed separation! Unalienable rights, endowed by the Lord God. Truths that we will hold dear. The governed have the nod.   And for seven long years, a war of attrition. Bunker Hill and Breed’s Hill, Concord and Lexington. Fort Ticonderoga, Trenton…

Freedom

By Allie Adams | July 3, 2025

As we celebrate the Fourth of July this week, we’re reminded of the incredible gift of freedom—both as citizens of this country and, even more importantly, as followers of Christ. While fireworks and festivities fill the sky, let’s not forget the deeper freedom we have through Jesus: freedom from fear, from sin, and from anything…

Father

By Seth Gatchell | June 10, 2025

A joy-filled, but hard task, Be a dad? Sacrifice. Of you, much will be asked. Live for self? Won’t suffice!   Loving and living, Serving and sharing, Guiding and giving, Teaching and trying.   Give them a model, How you love your wife. No room to be idle. Face problems in your life.   Wisdom…

DESERT

By Seth Gatchell | May 13, 2025

We live in a desert, desert sand all around, So little life, so hot, in this heat will I “drown”? Parched, bone dry and weary, where is water to drink? Where is an oasis? In these dunes will I sink?   The heat so oppressive, beating down, a furnace, The sun so relentless, much of…