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...
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...
