Celebrate: receive the surprise of each day What has surprised you recently? Were you able to celebrate that surprise? The quote from Nouwen challenges me to celebrate both the things that bring joy as well as sorrow. In our Messy Church training, when we teach about the foundational value of Celebration, we mention that at […]
Celebrate Focus Our Focus word for September is CELEBRATE! Lucy Moore and Jane Leadbetter in their book Messy Church[1] share that celebration is ‘about saying yes’. What things are you saying yes to this month? Are your children celebrating the start of school? I love seeing all the pictures of ‘first day of (insert year) […]
We had hoped to gather in October 2020… How many times have we thought back over what we’d planned for 2020 that never came to be? Messy Church USA was deep into planning its 2nd national conference when March 2020 rolled around and changed all our plans. Life gets Messy sometimes, doesn’t it? When Messy […]
