by MCCDC-Dale | Feb 20, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“.God is always and everywhere in the business of taking the worst things that happen to us, and going to work on them for the purposes of multiplying wholeness and blessing. Because God is in the story, we can hope for the resurrection of all things. There will be...
by MCCDC-Dale | Feb 13, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
…A radical pulsing of love, a rebellion of generous love, tenacious love, a love so foundational every step of what’s next begins and continues as an uprising…~Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer The tasks before us may seem at times monumental, heavy, and uncertain in an...
by MCCDC-Dale | Feb 6, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
Jesus said, “Row out farther, into the deep water, and drop your nets for a catch.” ~ Luke 5:4, Common English Bible Sometimes it seems that despite our best efforts, we come up empty. This happens in Sunday’s scripture from Luke 5:1-11. In this story a team of...
by MCCDC-Dale | Jan 30, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
The life that we find when we give up our lives to follow God’s call, is, after all is said and done, the life most worth living.” ~Kathryn M. Schifferdecker God is full of surprises. The prophet Jeremiah got a big surprise when God called him to be a prophet to the...
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,...
