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 […]
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 […]
Listening: The First Step to Launching a Vibrant Messy Church
In fifteen years of church-based community engagement the most important lesson I have learned is to listen first. Messy Church is an incredible model of intergenerational ministry that has been proven effective across thousands of communities around the world. What’s important to remember is that every Messy Church is different because every community is different. […]
November 2023 Messy Church of the Month
Congratulations to the Messy Church team of Palmdale United Methodist! Tell us a little bit about Palmdale United Methodist Church! Palmdale United Methodist Church (PUMC)started in1955 after a group from the community began to envision a United Methodist Church for the at the time small but growing community. At the time Palmdale was primarily a […]