"Don’t give up on your non-communicative high school grads. Keep them in your prayers, and don’t take their silence for lack of love or appreciation." Sending Off our …
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Thanking Sunday School Teachers
"Thanks are the highest form of thought and gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder" -G.K. Chesterton Three cheers for teachers! No education …
Welcoming College Students
The following suggestions were compiled by Laurie Day, an alum from Willamette University, and Janet Cromwell, Wesley Foundation Director at the University of …
The Lord’s Prayer in a Bag
"We ask God to help us do God’s will and to help us make the world the way God wants it to be – just like God sees the world in Heaven. What do you think the earth would be like …
A Reflection on Outreach: Meeting in the Middle
We are blessed to have a good spirit of Inter Faith and Ecumenical cooperation in our community. One of the things that we do together is to support a ministry for homeless women …
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The Sunday School Movement
When an 18th Century England newspaper editor, Robert Raikes, looked out his kitchen window one Sunday morning in 1781 and saw children playing in the Glouchester streets – the …
Stop Hunger Now: An Event for Re-Thinking Food
"As I was preparing the beautiful, fresh, local, food, I was also thinking about the fact that the $120 for that dinner would have fed 480 people in the Stop Hunger Now …
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Advent Conspiracy: Worship Fully, Spend Less, Give More, Love All
How can we ignore the sights and sounds of Christmas bombarding us, and focus on this holy time? How can we give in the true spirit of Christ? What is Advent …
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Christian Parents and the Tween Peer Group
In the Church School curriculum used by our “tween” (4th & 5th grades) class, they are exploring the story in Matthew 16:13-20, the passage where Jesus asks his …
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Plan an Epiphany Party… With King Cake!
"The finders of two dry beans might become king and queen of the Epiphany party. In New Orleans, the finder of a hidden black bean must give a party for all the other …
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