Daily Connector | Quilting for MCC | Judy Hartzler
On Wednesday, July 29, Marlene Suter and I took the rest of the 224 comforters Piecemakers made during the 2019-2020 year to MCC Connections in Kidron. (We had not been able to fit all of them into two vehicles when we drove up seven weeks ago.) We also took the…
Daily Connector | A hop off bike, pick up shovel | Dan Halterman
For ten years I biked home from work, 7 miles up High Street. A bike route no longer than that was one house hunting need last year, and I enjoyed a 6-mile ride home daily until the Covid lockdown. The shortest route took me up Cleveland Avenue to 17th, then…
Daily Connector | Ballroom Dancing | Larry Less
During this pandemic, we lament the loss of ballroom dancing. Square dancing was very popular in the 1970s while I was stationed at Minot AFB, ND. In between the squares, the caller would “cue” round dances. Round dancing is choreographed ballroom dancing to a particular popular song and covers all…
Daily Connector | Try writing a parable | Paul Knapke
The theme for our worship services for 7 Sundays in July and August is Parables. The parables told by Jesus in the bible are familiar to us, but can new parables be used to teach spiritual truths in the current day? Worship Commission decided to invite writers to create modern-day…
Learning how to pray
Amidst the many losses of the Covid era, I keep coming back to something spiritual writer Richard Rohr wrote years back and reiterated this past spring as it was becoming clear the pandemic would alter church life for the foreseeable future. What wrote however many years ago was that he…
