About to go to bed at the end of a long day, I just recorded this in my handwritten journal and thought it might be a nice post for my church and church-related folks to read. Today I read a…
Below you will see an article from the May 2013 edition of our church newsletter, The Spire. I felt the need to republish it here so that I could link it to our soon-to-be new website! Dear church family, I…
Whether or not to baptize one’s own child is a pretty heated debate in the Pastor World, many saying they’d like to be “just a mom” or “just a dad” for the ceremony, while others (myself included) say it’s a…
Hello Friends! I wanted to make a special post first of all to give a shout out to everyone who attended our very first faith & fitness night Zumba class! You all rocked it! There was lots of fun and…
Hello Everyone!I am very excited to be making my first post here on the First Congo blog! Sunday School has been a joy to be apart of here and I really would like to share some of the teaching tools…
I really enjoyed learning about the Cowsill family this past week. I distinctly remember seeing the “Hair” video on VH1 when I was young, back when VH1 and MTV were actually about music. This is the documentary I watched and…
Hi There, Friends! You’d think with all of this cold weather I’d be blogging away, but somehow the weeks just keep slipping by. Let’s get back on track, shall we? This week in my sermon I talked about the E…
Two significant events occurred in the past week, one global and the other local. On December 5, Nelson Mandela passed away at the age of 95, and in the early hours of this morning a fire broke out in downtown…
Read: Psalm 122; Listen: A Secular Psalm Response to Psalm 12, by Maic D’Agostino, and read by Erin Ter Beest Listen: Finding Peace, Sharing Peace Dig a Little Deeper: Last week I ranted about shopping on Thanksgiving. I said that I think it’s ridiculous, and…
Hi Friends!I don’t know how long it takes a normal person to get back into the swing of work after maternity leave, but I feel like I might be finally getting there. This week is my fourth week back. I…