Celebrate all the Gifts part II

A blog by Robin Cannon, Social Media Consultant for Messy Church USA Giving Gifts I am old enough to remember the excitement that came each year with the arrival of the Sears Toy catalog in the mail. For those of you too young to have experienced this momentous event, every year Sears created a very […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Advent Gift of Joy

Choosing Joy Can we really ‘choose joy’? I have identified with news articles and personal posts regarding the exhaustion of many people. There has been reports of the ‘great resignation’ and people leaving ministry due to burnout. The pandemic has its second anniversary this month and for many of us, we want it to be […]

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