*Checks Calendar* Wait, it’s 2025 already? We are a QUARTER of the way through the 21st Century ALREADY? This can’t possibly be right. We celebrated the change of the millennium like three years ago, tops. 2025 feels big, important. Like…
It’s hard to believe that I am already writing the final Lamplighter of 2024. Awhole lot has happened this year, sometimes it feels like it went dizzingly fast, other times achingly slow. As I look back on this year in…
As we enter into the season of the Holidays, we find a system with a lot of joy, but as we get older, we also start to feel grief. So much of the Holiday season is designed to recall the…
There’s something powerful about working with our younger churchmembers. The youth group, our kids ranging from junior high to high school, present a very interesting opportunity in leadership, because they are getting to the point where they start asking questions.…
With the school year back upon us, and as we return to our standard worship hours, I find myself getting excited for a return to regular Youth Group activities. With Confirmation Class meeting during the Sunday School hour and Youth…
As summer begins its wind down (slow for some, far too fast for others) I like to think about all the blessings we have coming to us as we prepare to swing back into fall. But that eagerness to look…