by MCCDC-Dale | Aug 12, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection We experience inspiration in worship, in reading the wisdom of holy texts, in prayer by ourselves and with others. We receive inspiration from Jesus and the Holy Spirit. We feel the victory of Jesus over death. But inspiration, and...
by MCCDC-Dale | Aug 5, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection “There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” ~Michael Phelps No victory comes easily. Obstacles are to be expected. Jesus faced obstacles. From the glory of his...
by MCCDC-Dale | Jul 29, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” ~Ryunosuke Satoro Every day we are bombarded with a lie. This lie has been told so long and so often that in the United States, it has become a part of our consciousness. It is...
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...
