Practice sharing about your faith! Start with your leadership team or key volunteers in practices to grow in faith. When you gather, ask the question, how and where have you experienced God’s presence this past week/ month/ quarter? This helps us start to notice those times that may seem ordinary but are we have met […]
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Messy Church USA 2025 Intentions
Messy Church USA Intentions for 2025 What are your intentions for 2025? I was impressed by a Facebook post on the first day of this new year from a pastor friend who made an infographic of 12 intentions for 2025 that their family had arrived upon at their final 2024 family conversation. Here are a […]
The Power of One Word
by Johannah Myers, Associate Director of Messy Church USA It’s funny how one word can make a huge difference in how we understand something. As we were setting up for Celebrate the Mess last month, one of the workshop leaders used the word “liturgy” to describe what I’ve always called the “model” of Messy Church. […]
We’re Going on an Adventure
by Crystal Goetz, Director of Family Ministries at Puyallup United Methodist Church in Puyallup, Washington I love the story of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien; Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, and company on their adventures in Middle Earth. As is true with any adventure, there are always challenges. It is, in many ways, like our faith […]