by MCCDC-Dale | Jul 22, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
” This Week’s Reflection” “Be determined and persevere, don’t give in to your fears.” ~Catherine Pulsifer Tomorrow marks the beginning of the 32nd Olympic Games. The Paralympics start in August. These athletes represent their...
by MCCDC-Dale | Jul 15, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection “In your presence, O God, our hearts find victory. Your love is a crown of fine gold upon our heads. Yes, your victories are forever!” ~Nan Merrill from Psalm 21, Psalms for Praying, alt. This Sunday, we begin an uplifting new worship...
by MCCDC-Dale | Jul 8, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection The first time I walked into the sanctuary of MCCDC, my eyes were drawn immediately to the glorious gold letters on the wall at the front to the right of the communion table—JOY. I immediately felt at home. Joy has long been one of two my...
by MCCDC-Dale | Jul 1, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection “Lord, we pray that the ropes that bind our nation together, though frayed, will never break; that the greatest of our natural resources—the love of our people—will abound, flowing even beyond our shores; that our flinty determination will...
by MCCDC-Dale | Jun 24, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection In the Gospels, we find many stories of those seeking to have an encounter with Jesus—to get his attention and have an interaction with him. In our scripture this week (Mark 5), we find this to be true of a woman who is ill with...
by MCCDC-Dale | Jun 17, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart by troubled, neither let it be afraid.” ~Jesus (John 14:27) Our hearts long for peace. In the push, pull and stress of this world,...
by MCCDC-Dale | Jun 10, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.” ~ Marsha P. Johnson, Trans Activist influencing the Stonewall uprising Happy Pride. The season we are choosing to recognize as “Pridetide” is upon us once again. It is a time globally to...
by MCCDC-Dale | Jun 3, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection “My prayer became ‘May I find peace. . .May I love this life no matter what.’ I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.” ~Tara Brach This Sunday is the...
by MCCDC-Dale | May 27, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection “Please savor the Sermon on the Mount. Read the rest of the Scriptures through its teaching and let the texts inform one another. Then share your readings with your friends, and your enemies. If you let the Sermon be your guide, you will...
by MCCDC-Dale | May 20, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection During this time of Eastertide, we have been celebrating, remembering and communing with the risen Christ. Our theme during this period has been Bring Heaven to Earth. Eastertide reminds us that Easter is not a day or an event yet a season...
