The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (aka WIC) is the premier U.S. public health nutrition program for pregnant women, mothers, and children up to age 5. In 2023, the program served 7 million participants per month— including almost 40 percent of all infants in USA. Most WIC participants live below the […]
Sermon Slides May 11: Hope in Times of Hunger Read More »
The Offering of Letters is a way for us to embody hope; a way for us to be the hands, feet, and voice of Christ in the world. And we can begin right now!For more on why we participate in Offering of Letters, click here. Options for participation:
Offering of Letters Tutorial Read More »
How many hungry people in our country, in our world, is too many? One hungry person is too many, right? Well…1 in 10 people around the world go to bed hungry each night. 1 in 5 children are at risk of hunger here in the USA. It doesn’t have to be this way. Hunger is preventable.
EMBODY HOPE by WORKING to END HUNGER Read More »
I offer these sermon slide posts so our found family participating in worship online can see the slides used to enhance the sermon message. Just one image today, but I think it is a beauty. Our tradition of covering a cross in flowers:
Sermon slide for April 27: Hope in Times of Crisis Read More »
Those participating in worship online won’t be able to see the slides we show to enhance the sermon, so our experiment with posting sermon slides here continues. Perhaps this Easter morning we can try some different words, try so other ways to talk about Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. If we say, as some scriptures
Sermon slides for Easter Sunday, April 20: Grief & Hope Read More »
There is no bulletin for today, only slides. So this post is a way for our online friends to follow the order of worship. ENTERING MUSIC WELCOMING SINGING “Jesus, Remember Me” UMH #488Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom READING SCRIPTURE Job 14:1-12 (Common English Bible)14 All of us are born of women, have few days,
Order of Worship for Holy Saturday, April 19 Read More »
Whenever I offer slides to (hopefully) enhance the sermon experience, I also try to post them here so our online audience has access to them. All Lent we have been following Jesus’ journey from Galilee to Jerusalem as told in the gospel according to Luke. In today’s reading, Jesus finally arrives in Jerusalem. Traditionally, we
Sermon slides for Palm Sunday, April 13: Shouting & Silence Read More »
This weekend, the season of Lent morphs into Holy Week with Palm Sunday. “The space between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday is worth lingering in, now more than ever. As society becomes increasingly polarized, Holy Week challenges the dichotomies that divide humanity into categories like powerful and powerless, enemy and friend, innocent and guilty, “us”
Everything [in] Between for Holy Week Read More »
Ack! I totally forgot to post this before our worship service today. My apologies! Here are the slides shared during the sermon today, “Something [in] Between: Lost & Found.” About what are we celebrating today? About what are we grumbling today? How do we seek lost folks in our world today? I think these images
Sermon slides for March 30: Lost & Found Read More »
This is another post in our ongoing experiment to give our online worshippers a method of seeing the slides shared during the sermon. No fun photos today; instead some fun facts…and some thoughts on parables. Insufficient Sleep = less than 7 hours32% of adults in Kendall and Grundy counties37% nationally20% nationally get 5 or less
Sermon slides for March 23: Rest & Growth Read More »
Christmas Eve at Minooka UMC
Wednesday, Dec. 24
4:00PM featuring Pop-up Pageant
9:00PM featuring Communion
