"Live without fear: your Creator has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Go in peace to follow the good road and may God’s blessing be with you …
Blessing of the Backpacks: 6 Tips for Success
"People will find it easy to say, "Hey, my church is blessing backpacks this Sunday - would you like to come?" This could be one of the best evangelism opportunities of the …
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Blessing Backpacks: Prayer and Resources
"We thank you for this new beginning, for new books and new ideas. We thank you for sharpened pencils, pointy crayons, and crisp blank pages waiting to be …
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Planning a Youth Creation Care Pilgrimage
"To go on a pilgrimage is to make the body and its actions express the desires and beliefs of the soul." Rebecca Solnit, from Wanderlust: A History of Walking Traditionally, if …
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A Second Pandemic Program Year: Finding Handholds
My small parish in central North Carolina started gathering for Sunday morning in-person worship again a month ago. Literally, we have physically received Communion together during …
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Grace + Peace: Back to School Blessing Tags & Stickers
It’s almost that time again! The time of year when students, teachers, and staff head back to school and we send them off with a Blessing of the Backpacks, a time where they can …
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Pillowcase Prayers
This year, as we continue to be safer at home, we felt home blessings were more vital than backpack blessings." Our church normally does a back to school blessing each year and …
Blessing of the Devices
If you are a craftsman . . . only look at your tools, your needle, your thimble, your beer barrel, your articles of trade, your scales, your measures, and you will find this saying …
Advent is a pilgrimage. Wear comfortable shoes.
“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation…” (Isaiah 52:7). Advent is a Pilgrimage. Wear …
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VBS Summer of Service
For the past 2 years, we have done what we call our Local Mission Trip for those in 6th grade and younger in place of a more traditional VBS. The kids love it and they get the …