If you show up for worship on a Sunday morning at Trinity Reformed Church, the congregation I pastor, you better watch where you sit. Not because you’ll be stealing someone’s long cherished seats (you might, but we’re far too polite…
During the summer the frantic pace of ministry slows down. We set aside most of our programming for a few months while the members of my Michigan congregation flock to the beautiful places around our state to soak up the…
In the spring and summer of 2017, our congregation baptized eight infants into our church family. For a relatively small congregation, this was a baby boom of epic proportions! In order to respond to this upspring of life among us,…
What we call the Christmas “closet” is really an attic room—located at the top of a steep set of stairs, with a sloping ceiling, and a bare light bulb for ambiance. She houses the bulk of my congregation’s Advent and…
