Helping You Be the Church Right Where You Are

Christmas is all about Magic: the lights, the music, the manger. But what about this year? With COVID-19 weighing on all of us still, how can anyone possibly feel the Magic of Christmas? How can you begin experiencing it today? Well...the Magic behind Christmas is about the way that God gave the gift of His Son to you and me. He gave Him to us happily. The mistake that we all make is thinking that our happiness or magical tingly feelings come because of what we give. Happines

"Meaningless! Meaningless! Everything is Meaningless!" (Ecc. 12:8), and yes it is... without God. But we are not without Him. You are not without Him. How do I know that? Because Jesus said that anyone (which includes you) can have immediate access to God. That means God's joy and presence is just within YOUR reach. Here is what Jesus said in John 14:23, "If anyone loves me, he or she will obey my teaching. My Father will love him or her, and we will come to him or her and ma

When events get cancelled because of tropical storms and COVID, what can you do? Well, in our neighborhood, kids have been playing outside together safely for several months. So we asked ourselves, 'what can we do for our neighbors?' We noticed that kids needed an outlet --parents too! So we brought out paper and paint, a few chairs and water, and invited neighbor kids to paint to their creative hearts' content! It was much more low key than our summer adventures! You may not