New Mexico is the home for our Messy Church(es) of the Month Congratulations to Christ United Methodist Church (UMC) and Cornerstone UMC in Albuquerque, New Mexico our Messy Churches of the Month for November! The incredible Barb Tegtmeier led the Messy Church team at Christ UMC for several years and now is working with a […]
Overflowing in Thanks
Live your lives in Christ Jesus the Lord in the same way you received him. Be rooted and built up in the way of Jesus, established in the faith as you are taught, overflowing in thanksgiving. Colossians 2:6-7 NRSV (adapted) A Moment to give thanks My heart was overflowing with thanksgiving as I looked out […]
September 2021 Messy Church of the Month
Congratulations to Community United Methodist! Marty Drake and Leyla Wagner met when their now adult children were in preschool. They have worked together in many different projects over the years before bringing their dynamic creativity to start Messy Church at Community United Methodist Church (UMC) in Huntington Beach, CA in December 2013. They are two […]
Welcome September
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 wilderness and streams in the wasteland Isaiah 43:18-19 Welcome to September Messy Friends The turning of the seasons always causes me to reflect. […]