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 »
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 »
What, really, is the point of all this Lent stuff? Excellent question. I can offer an answer, but, it’ll take me a moment to get there. (I know, shocking! You’re shocked!) It seems everywhere we turn we are faced with an article, a blog post, a news report, an op-ed, a video short, or an
Questioning the season Read More »
The early followers of Jesus observed with great devotion the final days of Messiah’s life, his death, and his resurrection. So Lent is the 40 days between today and Easter (not counting Sundays) during which we prepare ourselves for the events of Holy Week and Easter. The season of Lent is mostly known as a
An invitation to observe a Holy Lent Read More »
It has been said forewarned is fair-warned. Well, we are less than a week until the church season of Lent. The season starts with Ash Wednesday, March 5th. We gather for worship that day at 7:00pm. Our youth are in the midst of planning that worship experience…so it may be unlike other Ash Wednesday services
It’s the changing of the seasons Read More »