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Youth Ministry 2021: The Comeback

September 16, 2021 By Miriam McKenney 1 Comment

What’s your new year looking like? For one church, it’s a return to the physical building. Here’s how youth minister Miriam McKenney created a plan for maximum safety and fun in a big pop-up tent.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Prayer, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: bean bags, beanbags, Calvary, coronavirus, Jesus, ministry, Prayer, teenagers, teens, tent, youth, youth group, youth ministry

Holy Cross: Living into Its Meaning

September 14, 2021 By Tim Gavin Leave a Comment

As Christians, we may venerate the Holy Cross by kneeling before it and saying prayers. However, the best way to demonstrate our veneration of the cross is to emulate Jesus who died on it.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: cross, Feast Days, Holy Cross Day, Jesus, Judaism

Jesus in a Pink Sash or John Wayne Jesus? 

August 9, 2021 By Meredith Baker Leave a Comment

New children’s books and Bibles are challenging all of us to ask: what if God is bigger than our stereotypes?

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Bible, children's Bible, children's books, Jesus

Ten Thoughts for Younger Me

July 7, 2021 By Miriam McKenney 6 Comments

If you could talk to your younger self, what would you say? Miriam reflects on twenty-six years of being a parent as her youngest, a 2021 high school graduate, prepares to leave home.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: adult, adult children, college, daughters, empty nest, God, graduate, Jesus, love, mom, parenting, raising daughters, school, Spirit, transition

Bringing Saint Joseph to the Center

March 19, 2021 By Bingham Powell 2 Comments

Today is the feast of Saint Joseph, but before we talk about that, I need to share with you one of the best Christmas presents I received this year: a llama needle felting kit!

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: art, Bible, crafts, Jesus, Joseph

Reservations & a Borrowed Wedding

February 28, 2021 By Anne Warner 1 Comment

Later today I’ll call 600 Kitchen & Bar in downtown Kalamazoo and ask a question I’ve never asked before. “Yes, hello, are you taking reservations for shipping container tables for February 28?”

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary, Jesus, wedding

Context of a Cure

February 3, 2021 By Anne Warner Leave a Comment

Imagine for a minute that the three main characters of the story—the servant, the centurion, and Jesus—are standing in front of you.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: healing, Jesus, Luke, trinity

What the Good Book Club is teaching us

January 28, 2021 By Allison Sandlin Liles Leave a Comment

The Good Book Club is wrapping up its fourth week today with the conclusion of chapter 10. Our household is participating once again this year, albeit more slowly. So rather than reading about blind Bartimaeus over dinner tonight, we’ll be back in chapter 8 discussing the costs of following Jesus. 

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Filed Under: Good Book Club, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: children's Bible, COVID-19, Jesus, Mark, The Good Book Club

The Good Book Club is Coming

December 30, 2020 By Allison Sandlin Liles Leave a Comment

I think this season of the Good Book Club will be especially appropriate for families with younger children for a number reasons.

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Advent Care Package for Youth: What’s in the box?

November 13, 2020 By Miriam McKenney Leave a Comment

A post from the Forma Facebook page a few days ago reminded me: what am I doing for Advent with my youth group? Of course, I should have been thinking about this weeks ago. But here I am, scrolling through the list of ideas and putting together my Advent care package. But it’s not too late, especially in God’s time.  

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Spiritual Practices, Way of Love Tagged With: Advent, birth, coloring, craft, Jesus, nativity

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