Messy Church of the Month Celebration! One of our Messy Church traditions is to revisit our Messy Churches of the Month during the month of December. During 2023, we traveled from coast to coast in the US and all the way to Western Australia to hear the stories of eight different expressions of Messy Church. […]
Celebrate all the Gifts part I
A Blog by Robin Cannon, Social Media Consultant for Messy Church USA Unexpected Gifts Recently, I have been thinking a lot about gifts, but not in the usual way of making sure I have great Christmas gifts for everyone in the family. This Advent season is an anniversary for me. It was 10 years ago […]
Giving Thanks when life is Messy
A Blog post by Roberta Egli As I approach celebrating Thanksgiving this year, I am struggling a bit. I received a diagnosis of Breast Cancer over the Labor Day weekend. For myself this fall has been filled with Dr’s appointments, and a surgery to remove the cancer a month ago. For the past month, I […]
Engage with Messy Church-part II
A Blog post by Rev. Jim White, Pastor at Palmdale United Methodist “The goal [of Messy Church]is to help people fully engage with God, themselves, and one another.” It’s a running joke… at least within United Methodist Churches… that the ‘best seats’ on any given Sunday morning is the back row. Actually, it’s not really […]