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...

Uncomfortable enough? A year ago, in our September newsletter, I talked about uncomfortable. We were moving our worship service out of the building to join in the community Pride Worship, and I wanted to acknowledge that it might make you uncomfortable.  It is a bit...

Don't Let It Get You Down As we’ve been pondering spiritual gifts and how it is that we keep becoming who we are in this season, these words from a song keep coming to mind: Oh, this could be the part of you that you ain't never seen beforeOh, this could be the part,...

PRIDE Sunday We’re MOVING our worship for Sunday, October 12 to the ISU Memorial Union, where we'll join a number of Ames faith communities in a combined Pride Sunday worship service. Our schedule for that day is as follows: * 8:45-9:30 Sunday School for All...

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...