by MCCDC-Dale | May 1, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“Rather than focusing on the obstacle in your path, focus on the bridge over the obstacle”-Mary Lou Retton I have always been a lover of bridges as they are a powerful spiritual image to me, a reminder of both the price Jesus paid for our salvation, and...
by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 24, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
God has been intimately involved with the affairs of God’s creation since the beginning. In Solomon’s case as a child king, God asked Solomon what do you want me to do for you? Solomon at age 12 asked God for wisdom to lead God’s people; and God honored his unselfish...
by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 17, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“I can think of no greater vocation as a person of faith than to speak honestly about death, trusting in that even deeper reality of God’s resurrection.” ~Rachel Mann The resurrection is an invitation to experience God as our All and All and Everything in Between. We...
by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 10, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
With Holy Week we are on a journey that holds within it the fullness of the human story—the highs, the lows, the hopes, the fears. In the span of seven days, we do it all: we praise, process, break bread, wash feet, make promises, break promises, deny, betray,...
by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 3, 2025 | Calendar, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
You could call me out. You could hang me out to dry. You could list my sins. You could shrink me down to size. Or, you could call me in. You could grab my hand. You could show me what I missed. ~Call Me In by Sanctified Arts As we live and move about in our own...
by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 27, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
At times, we may feel as though our lives have a kind of ebb and flow of missing and found patterns—in one moment we might feel like we have it all together, and in the next, we’re struggling to survive. The promise of this parable is that no matter how “lost” we...
by Sheila Chittams | Mar 20, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
On the occasion of my first message at MCCDC, the main takeaway will be that God gives us strength and grace to overcome our circumstances and meets us in the space between fear and faith, compassion and contempt. I hope my sermon will do the following: Give hope and...
by Sheila Chittams | Mar 13, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“Much work is needed in the world. Much work is needed in our homes, neighborhoods, and cities. The list is truly endless. And that list is important; it does matter! Martha’s tasks must be done. And yet. . .those tasks are not to become our gods, the center of...
by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 6, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“Much work is needed in the world. Much work is needed in our homes, neighborhoods, and cities. The list is truly endless. And that list is important; it does matter! Martha’s tasks must be done. And yet. . .those tasks are not to become our gods, the center of...
by MCCDC-Dale | Feb 27, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“Growing comes from an inward life principle of growth. . . the essential thing is to get within you the growing life, the wonderful divine life of an indwelling Holy Spirit. “ ~Hannah Whitall Smith, Quaker Spiritual Writer Everything has changed. Much of it is an...
