From Johannah Myers, Executive Director I love Advent. Over the past few years, I’ve found this season of waiting and preparation even more meaningful than Christmas itself. There’s something holy about being invited to slow down, practice patience, and sit for a while in the dark and the unknown. Advent gives us room to acknowledge […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]