by MCCDC-Dale | Oct 16, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“The widow in Jesus’ parable represents not only the need to pray always, as Luke puts it, but also the Spirit’s incessant work of encouraging us to pray, the Spirit’s nagging persistence and unrelenting perseverance.” Margit Ernst-Habib In Luke 18:1-8 we meet one who...
by MCCDC-Dale | Oct 9, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“’Go on your way; your faith has made you well’ is a description of a life of blessing for the church: as we go on our way, we rejoice and give thanks; for in giving thanks in all things, we find that God, indeed, is in all things.” ~ Kimberly Bracken Long Gratitude...
by MCCDC-Dale | Oct 2, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“We need to trust God when God asks us to move forward by taking what may appear to be small and insignificant steps.” ~Wessel Bentley When it comes to generosity it has been said that the size of the heart is more important than the size of the gift. At MCCDC we...
by MCCDC-Dale | Sep 25, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“Generosity becomes real life because it is an authentic act based on faith in the eternality of life. Thus the self-giving life is not a negation of life but an affirmation of the eternality of life; by God life was given, is being given, and will be given.”...
by MCCDC-Dale | Sep 18, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Raise awareness, normalize help-seeking, and promote hope. This month and all year long. This Sunday, we continue to acknowledge and join in national and worldwide efforts to shift the culture of silence and stigma...
by MCCDC-Dale | Sep 11, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“Let your God love you. Say nothing. Ask nothing. Let your God look upon you. That is all.” ~Edwina Gateley Our desires and the desire of God intersect with two words: Welcome Home. These two words also express the desire of MCCDC for our community. In a world of...
by MCCDC-Dale | Sep 4, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
One bread, one body, one Lord of all. One cup of blessing which we bless. And we, though many, throughout the Earth.We are one body in this one Lord ~John Foley and New Dawn? Over the last few weeks we have been focusing on the human threads created and knit together...
by MCCDC-Dale | Aug 28, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“If you don’t define yourself for yourself, you’d be crunched into other people’s fantasies of you and eaten alive”. ~Audre Lorde“ I have a friend that knits as spiritual practice (and to make useful things). She tells me how comforting...
by MCCDC-Dale | Aug 21, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“You are my hope, O God.” ~Psalm 71:5 The prophet Jeremiah was called by God during the captivity of Jerusalem in 587 B.C. In the midst of fear and upheaval, God gave Jeremiah the spiritual authority to proclaim hope: “Look, I have put my words in your mouth! Today I...
by MCCDC-Dale | Aug 14, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
The Lord’s power overcame me, and while I was in the Lord’s spirit, God led me out and set me down in the middle of a certain valley. It was full of bones. God led me through them all around, and I saw that there were a great many of them on the valley floor, and they...
