You Are Invited

You are invited to an Open House on Sunday, January 15, 2:00 - 4:00 PM at Imagine Fellowship Church, corner of 20th and Maple. Come and meet Pastor Wayne Coleman and tour the building, see the proposed plans for improving the building and enjoy some light refreshment

It is Amazing

 Pastor Stan Scripps | It is amazing what will grow from a stump. You may have thought the old tree was finished. But give it a little rain and a little sun and a little time, and look at this! Where did it come from? Did someone plant a seed? No one planted it, perhaps ever. Maybe God just planted it there once while no one was looking a long time ago. Then someone came along and cut it down and for a while it looked dead; but then this. It is kind of like Easter.

Spring planting is behind schedule in the Midwest this year, at least if you count the kind of planting that farmers like to do. With mud and pooling water in last year’s cornfield, they have reason to be concerned. But even though many fields can’t bear the weight of a tractor, new life is thrusting its way up, everywhere, God’s own life-giving spirit at work.

Rejoice! 

On Preparation

Kate Bolt | There is beauty in preparation: cutting the oranges for marmalade, measuring the sugar, stirring the sweet syrup, storing up jars for the long winter months. But for me, in that preparation can also be a trap. Slicing instead of singing with Willem, buying the sugar rather than seeing what is sweet in front of me, making lists (and checking them twice!), wrapping, making more lists, doing more soapy dishes. I need to be very careful in this advent season to prepare for what is important, rather than only for the festivity. May I train my mind to see God at work in the flight of a winter bird, the falling snow, the building of train tracks with Jack & Willem. Such a balance to be found between doing what is before me and worrying about what is to come. "Make up your mind to not worry beforehand" (Luke 21:14) while still enjoying mindfulness and waiting and wrapping and preparation for the holiday.