Daily Connector | Knitting together a gift of love | Nancy Frank
This year I knit the newest Christmas stocking for our family. With our son’s engagement to be married to a lovely woman named Ikuko, I set to work to add her personalized stocking to the mantle. These bright green stockings with each person’s name stitched in red were originally created…
Daily Connector | What I learned during COVID | Dan Halterman
I am a “neo-Luddite,” have general reservations about each new “e-thing.” I get unhappy facing a computer change. My PC at home is 11 years old; I’ve never learned how to use a fingerswipe pad; and I’m unsure how a “tablet” differs from a “laptop” – but I’ve been told…
Daily Connector | I Matter | Brent (and Issac) Miller
Being the big kids on campus, a select group of 4th graders at JC Sommer Elementary are entrusted to be “Fourth Grade Ambassadors.” It is a program in which this group has the opportunity – nay, responsibility – to serve the younger kids at school in various ways: By welcoming…
Daily Connector | Giving Thanks… A Native American Good Morning Message | Diane Mueller
I have been thinking about my favorite Thanksgiving themed children’s book that I had the deep privilege to share with many a primary class during my teaching years. This book, Giving Thanks, A Native American Good Morning Message, by Chief Jake Swamp, was uncovered lately while digging through my remaining…
Daily Connector | The relationship of light/dark | Katie Graber
I appreciated Carolyn May and Phil Hart’s exploration of darkness imagery last week, and it reminded me of Joel’s sermon (a while ago!) that interwove the song “Joyful is the Dark.” In screening thousands of songs for Voices Together, I have become all the more aware of how some biblical…
Daily Connector | Ready for Shinola | Brent Miller
A mentor once told me, “Brent, when you decide to change yourself for the better and really bear down, the universe will test you. When you decide to take control, the universe is going to give you all sorts of…*STUFF*… before it gives you any shinola.” When I started writing…
Daily Connector | Reflections of Hymns 1 & 307 | Lavonne van der Zwaag
“What is this place, where we are meeting?” A monitor screen, covered with a patchwork of squares, filled with the faces of people A community, a family, “a body that lives” even though we are gathered virtually. We affirm that the God that is here with me is also there…
Daily Connector | Election Day | Cheryl Hacker
On November 3rd, I served as an election poll worker. I hadn’t worked at the polls before then, but ever since I became eligible to vote some decades ago, I’ve voted in every general election and most primaries. I believe in the democratic election process. It has always given me…
Daily Connector | Black Sheep | Brent Miller
There is a new book out called “Black Sheep” by Brant Menswar, a Canadian rock star-turned- motivational speaker. It’s a quick and easy read that helps lay a path out to finding your “Flock of Five”. The “Flock of Five” are the non-negotiable “Black Sheep” values that each person has….
Daily Connector | Black Sheep | Brent Miller
There is a new book out called “Black Sheep” by Brant Menswar, a Canadian rock star-turned- motivational speaker. It’s a quick and easy read that helps lay a path out to finding your “Flock of Five”. The “Flock of Five” are the non-negotiable “Black Sheep” values that each person has….
