Advent, Christmas and Christmas Eve will be different this year… It will BE JOYFUL and we will be TOGETHER! Now, it may not be as normal,but together we will create a new normal filled with all the Advent and Christmas traditions. This year, Christmas is all about OUTREACH -> Others (Loving Our Neighbor).Make it Simple.…
This November, seven churches and their pastors will begin meeting as a part of a new “circuit” gathering of churches that will be working together to make the mission and ministry of our churches come alive! We will be joining with all the United Methodist churches in Iowa to develop a Mission and Ministry Plan…
Back in January, we launched the year by focusing on “How we want to have grown (and become more mature) in our faith and therefore in our lives!” If you don’t have a target, you’ll never know where to aim…and you’ll miss it every time. We are done with that. We continue to learn to…
W e are all about “Go be the church!” Now is the time for us to all live into it! In our church, we are farmers, connected to the land and the changes that come to farmers whose lives are dependent on the weather and markets. We not only know farmers, but they are family…
I had a great gift given to me last week. It was a T-shirt that said two words on the front: “FAITH” and then the word “FEAR” under it. I must admit that I didn’t quite understand it. But as I said the words and with a little help from the person who gave it…
July 2020 Sermon Series – Sermon on the Mount: Building our Foundation for our Post-COVID Life and Faith This July, we are going to begin a new adventure. This is our “coming-out” as a congregation into a new world… as we live beyond normal. During the pandemic we discovered opportunities in the midst of adversity.…
We love things simple and to the point. Love God. Love others. Go be the church! God str uggled that His people couldn’t follow the faith rules. He tried to make it simple. So, he gave the 10 Commandments (not the 10 suggestions). And the people struggled with the 10 Commandments – and we still…
It’s all about REL ATIONSHIPS – relationship with others, relationship with family, relationship with God… and even our relationship with ourselves. We learned that throughout our 2-month overview study of the Bible. So, let’s take it to the next level. Catch this… Socrates had a phrase he repeated: “Know thyself.” Two words, simple words, but…
I hope everyone is surviving and staying sane in our recent pandemic! I had initially intended to talk about Easter in this newsletter. But instead, it has been a week when our wildest dreams – right out of a pandemic movie became a reality. It has brought “changes” that we never imagined in just a…
OK…people of the Mingo United Methodist Church – at the beginning of this year, you had the opportunity to prioritize how you wanted to be different by the end of 2020. We just completed 21 days of John Wesley’s challenging questions. Now we move to addressing our need to learn more about the Bible. But…