THIS WEEK @ FMC – November 20-26, 2024
Advent begins this year on December 1! To guide our worship services, we’ll be adapting resources created by A Sanctified Art around the theme Words for the Beginning. A devotional booklet with artwork, poetry, hymns, and questions for journaling and reflecting is available. Hard copies are on the table in the foyer at church, and […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – November 13-19, 2024
a blessing for keeping your heart soft when everything is broken (by Kate Bowler) Blessed are you who see it all now. The terrible, beautiful truth that our world, our lives seem irreparably broken. And you can’t unsee it. The hungry kid. The exhausted mom. The woman who wonders if any of this is worth […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – November 6-12, 2024
“What kind of person would I like to be?” … all the time, in every sphere of life, including politics? This identity and purpose clarifying question is at the core of the book The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life, written by Michael Wear, and the focus of our […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – October 30-November 5, 2024
Relationship and community building are one of the many reasons I’m grateful for the work and ministry of Mennonite Central Committee. Our Wednesday evening sessions have already given us a glimpse of this “faith in action” through stories and updates giving concrete examples of love of enemy and neighbor alike. I also find MCC’s e-memo […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – October 16-29, 2024
Season of Creation 2024 Prayer Triune God, Creator of all, we praise you for your goodness, visible in all the diversity that you have created, making us a cosmic family living in a common home. Through the Earth you created, we experience love and nourishment, home and protection. We confess that we do not relate […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – October 9-15, 2024
For The Healing of the Nations This hymn has stuck with me this week, especially as we lament the anniversary of October 7, including all that came before and all that has come after. The weight of this (and other) conflicts resulting in tragic and senseless destruction of humanity and creation is something we must […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – October 2-8, 2024
Creating God, Your Fingers Trace Creating God, your fingers trace the bold designs of farthest space Let sun and moon and stars and light and what lies hidden praise your might. Sustaining God, your arms uphold earth’s mysteries know or yet untold. Let water’s fragile blend with air, enabling life, proclaim your care. Redeeming God, […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – September 25-October 1, 2024
The Mennonite World Conference Peace Commission offers this prayer for peace, calling us to embody a faith that follows the way of the Prince of Peace. May it be so… Lord, have mercy! Christ, have mercy! When, O Lord, will we learn that peace does not come through force? When, O Lord, will we learn […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – September 11-24
The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it. Psalm 24:1 Prayers for creation (from Mennonite World Conference): We hear the Spirit calling us to respond to the suffering of creation by repenting, by turning from greed and selfish ambition: the entire cosmos is the […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – August 28-September 10, 2024
This fall at FMC we’ll be engaging with two different worship series. The first, beginning September 8, offers an Anabaptist lens to the theme, To Hope and Act with Creation, based on a series developed by the Season of Creation ecumenical coalition. Season of Creation is an invitation to Christians around the world to engage […]
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