by MCCDC-Dale | Jan 23, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi Our scripture for this Sunday shows the values of Jesus in his ministry as he “returned in the power of the Holy Spirit to Galilee, and his reputation spread...
by MCCDC-Dale | Jan 16, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, Events, Space Rental
“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love illuminates it.” ~Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr The life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. bears powerful witness to what it means to live with strength and integrity. With great impact, Dr. King...
by MCCDC-Dale | Jan 9, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
In 2011 MCCDC offered our first round of The Bible in 90 Days. One of our members, Johanna Hardy, had done it previously and suggested it to our community. Since then, we’ve offered it every two years, on odd-dated calendar years. Some have participated with each of...
by MCCDC-Dale | Jan 3, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
Happy New Year MCCDC! I had to chuckle at the title of our Epiphany week celebration. Indeed the road or the people are not (mostly) straight. And neither is the road that we will walk in 2025. Like the Magi, there will be mystery and uncertainty and exhaustion and...
by MCCDC-Dale | Dec 27, 2024 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“Laughter is like hope—it has a ripple effect. It’s one of many ways we live and share the good news…As refreshing and unexpected as snowflakes caught on our tongues, laughter doesn’t just lighten our spirits; it invites us to see the world through a lens of...
by MCCDC-Dale | Dec 19, 2024 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
The birth of Jesus was a rebirth of hope. It was made possible by risk takers. Joseph and Mary had reasons to fear, yet they responded to divine guidance and acted through and beyond their fears. In Matthew 1: 18-25, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream and said,...
by MCCDC-Dale | Dec 12, 2024 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
You are uniquely situated to bring light into the world. May you find courage this season to do the good that is yours to do. It matters. May you see the ripples of your actions expand outward, touching lives, repairing broken walls, and mending the fabric of our...
by MCCDC-Dale | Dec 5, 2024 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
Beloved, we are not alone on this winding journey. May the companionship of sibling sojourners reflect the love of the One who—in becoming flesh—chose to journey alongside us. One of life’s most essential lessons-simple truths-is that we are never meant to go alone....
by MCCDC-Dale | Nov 28, 2024 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“ I have created you… I have called you be name; you are mine… Have no fear for I am with you.” Isaiah 43: 1-4, 5. This Sunday, Dec. 1st is the beginning of a new year on the church calendar. It is the beginning of Advent, a time of waiting. I have come to love Advent...
by MCCDC-Dale | Nov 21, 2024 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“. . .what was profoundly lost now is astoundingly found. The poor receive good news: those of little importance are now the apple of God’s eye. It is imperative to go tell these things, to describe the compelling authenticity of this Jesus and the trustworthiness of...
