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  • Bringing Forth Fruit Worthy of Repentence

    We noticed her standing just inside the front entrance looking up. While she was waiting to load her bus with the summer camp kids, she had stepped into the church foyer and saw the land...
    October 26, 2018
  • Re/Placing Ourselves

    Have you ever seen a tree so large that as you walked towards it you could not see the top and all perspectives of height began to whirl within you? We live in a land that was once covered in trees so...
    October 22, 2018
  • Recovering a Theology of Place

    We so rarely know where we really are. We drive around in cars, spend our days under fluorescent lights in artificially re-circulated air, staring at screens and moving so quickly from task to task...
    October 19, 2018
  • Dish with One Spoon and Our Creational Calling

    Have you ever had the experience of reading something and suddenly all kinds of connections start going off in your head? I had that experience a few years ago when I first read about the Dish with...
    October 15, 2018
  • Dignity for Refugees with Special Needs in Uganda

    For the last two years we’ve been working in Northern Uganda to respond to the influx of South Sudanese refugees that fled here due to war. We responded through the WASH program—we constructed 770...
    October 12, 2018
  • Protecting Clean Water for My Neighbors' Good

    The morality of any society can be judged by how it cares for people and how it cares for God’s gift of creation. The Clean Water Rule, put forward by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2015...
    October 1, 2018
  • What the Eyes Don't See

    Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. -Dr. Seuss, The Lorax Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the doctor who brought attention to the impact that Flint’s...
    September 28, 2018
  • Polluted Lungs, Polluted Minds

    This summer, I had the opportunity to participate in a learning tour with the Canadian Aboriginal Ministry Committee, World Renew, and the CRC Office of Race Relations focusing on places of racism...
    September 24, 2018
  • Building Equity at Sunday School

    Kids can be pretty focused on fairness. "Elijah got more cake than me!" "Sarah isn't sharing the swing with me!" If you work or live with kids, these might be common refrains in your life! There can...
    September 21, 2018
  • The Story behind the Abuse Overture

    The letter to the attorney begins, “I am Wesley Heersink's brother, Stan... It is with frustration and disappointment that I am writing this letter to you now. The letters we have written to the...
    September 17, 2018