THIS 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 […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – August 14-27, 2024
God of wonder and curiosity, open my mind to the amazing world around me today. When I am confused or curious, guide me to wise people Who can help me understand new things. And no matter how long it takes for me to learn, I know you are always My patient teacher. Amen. Credit: illustratedministry.com […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – July 31-August 13, 2024
There’s a wild hope in the wind: her whisper is heard on the breeze. The gale is her shout that is calling us out. There’s a wild hope in the wind. O God in the wind, come gather us in, be our courage and promise. The future is dim, but we want to […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – July 17-30, 2024
Leaving home, we set our seeing, on a quest for deeper meaning. What we find can change us for the love of all the creation and its beings. Far from home, we know we’re seeing, everywhere is full of meaning; diff’rent folx expand our world and awe of all the creation and its beings. Coming […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – July 10-16, 2024
“A journey can become a sacred thing… … May you travel in an awakened way, gathered wisely into your inner ground; that you may not waste the invitations which wait along the way to transform you.” (John O’Donohue. To Bless the Space Between Us. Pg 55. Except from “For the Traveler”) PLEASE NOTE: New posts […]
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