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 […]
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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 […]
Messy Connections – Part II
A post from Dr. Johannah Myers, Associate Director of Messy Church USA For our September Messy Church, we tried something different – we went on a field trip (a Messy Adventure) to our local zoo. We were inspired by the “Wild Safari” session (#9) that’s included in the Messy Adventures published by Messy Church-BRF (you […]
Messy Church of the Month-October 2023
North Georgia’s Aldersgate United Methodist Church is located in the neighborhood that borders the world-famous Augusta National Golf Club, home of the annual Masters tournament. As more and more people moved out of the neighborhood and to the suburbs in the 2000s and 2010s, numbers and vitality suffered. Worship attendance dropped from 600 to 100 […]