With these few days before our upcoming Church Conference, it seems like a good time to talk about showing up. Everything I know about showing up I learned in church. That’s a bit of an overstatement, because I grew up surrounded by relatives and neighbors who showed...
Preparing for Church Conference on Tues., Oct. 21 at 6 pm Thanks for the many ways you’ve engaged with the presentations and feedback sessions offered during September. We counted 120 who attended one or more of those sessions, and our Site Analysis Oversight Team has...
On a recent retreat day, I found myself led to Psalm 86. Here’s a piece of The Message version of this Psalm. As you read these words, and especially the plea at the end, I’d like you to read it on two levels. First, are there times when you’ve needed to know...
Until the day my parents dropped me off at my college dorm for the first time, I was Lee Ann. I hadn’t consciously been thinking about the possibility of becoming “Lee” when I arrived at college. But when I wandered down the hallway to meet some of my neighbors that...
We can talk and plan, hope and pray, create committees and set goals. But the real question is what happens when the rubber hits the road. What does all this look like, on the ground? Is it just talk, or are we going to do something with it? Coming into 2025, we knew...
