Summer Stories Broaden Imaginations

by | Aug 24, 2021 | Grow Inwardly

Over the summer months for the past few years, Children and Family Minister Sally Engelbert has carefully cultivated a special program for our young people. She has paired the themes found in well-known children’s books with the Sunday lectionary texts, effectively...

Wandering in an Unvaccinated Desert

by | Aug 22, 2021 | Grow Outwardly

It’s a good time to recall an Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) tale that we don’t hear in the lectionary. In both Numbers 13:1–33, and repeated with some differences in Deuteronomy 1:22–40, we can read about the group of Israelite chieftains from each of the Twelve Tribes...