Congratulations to First United Methodist in Michigan City, Indiana We are excited for you to learn about our January 2022 Messy Church of the month. I know first hand that this church knows how to do hospitality! Back in the summer of 2019, I led one of the in-person Get Started in Messy Church trainings […]
Starting a New Chapter
Don’t remember the prior things; don’t ponder ancient history. Look! I’m doing a new thing; now it sprouts up; don’t you recognize it?I’m making a way in the desert, paths in the wilderness. ( Isaiah 43: 18-19, Common English Bible) The story continues… These two verses from Isaiah keep calling to me from different places on these first days […]
Happy (and a little Messy) New Year!
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.See, I am doing a new thing!Now it springs up; can’t you see it?I am making a way in the wildernessand streams in the wasteland.Isaiah 43:18-19 A Messy Prayer Activity to start 2022 As you turn your calendar from December 2021 to January 2022, take a […]
Gift of the Ordinary and Messy
Gift of the Ordinary and Messy …Where is God revealing God’s self? Certainly not in the “safe” world, but at the edge, at the bottom, among those people and places where we don’t want to find God, where we don’t look for God, where we don’t expect God…Maybe the reason that our knowledge of God […]