Craig LaFollette Member since 1988 Goodwill class Isaiah 6:8  And I Heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?  Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.” Luke 12:12  “….for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.” John 3:16-17 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” A journey to Cuba helped me turn closer to God. After a few years of suggesting, urging and toward [...]

Joseph Patty; Associate Director of Student Ministries; Genesis 39:6b Genesis 50:15-21 15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?” 16 So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father left these instructions before he died: 17 ‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God [...]

Louise McEvoy, Adult Ministries Associate, Occasional Outsider Mark 5:25-34 (NRSV) 25 Now there was a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years. 26 She had endured much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had; and she was no better, but rather grew worse. 27 She had heard about Jesus, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 for she said, “If I but touch his clothes, I will be made well.” 29 Immediately her hemorrhage stopped; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her [...]

Louise McEvoy, Adult Ministries Associate, Occasional Outsider Mark 5:2-9 (The Voice) 2-3 When Jesus came ashore there, He was immediately met by a man who was tortured by an evil spirit. This man lived in the cemeteries, and no one could control him—not even those who tried to tie him up or chain him. 4 He had often been bound in chains, but his strength was so great that he could break the chains and tear the irons loose from his feet and hands. No one and nothing could subdue him. 5 Day and night, he lurked among the [...]

Rachel Fisher, Children’s Communications Specialist Isaiah 59:1-4, 16 (NIV) 1 Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. 3 For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsely, and your tongue mutters wicked things. 4 No one calls for justice; no one pleads a case with integrity. They rely on empty arguments, they utter lies; they conceive [...]

Brittney Ford 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come; The old has gone, the new is here! Reflection: I’m just going to come out and say it... I didn’t hate 2020. We all had different experiences in 2020- Many suffered immense loss. Others were met with financial hardships. Living life confined to our homes made us feel isolated and frustrated, and virtual school for our kids was a struggle. Wherever we find ourselves today we can look back and find the silver linings to the forced time at home.  I know more [...]

Lavonne Baker I Kings 17:13-16 (NIV) Elijah said to her (the widow) “Don’t be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ’the jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord gives rain on the land.’” Reflection: How many times in our lives have we [...]

Joseph Patty; Associate Director of Student Ministries; Target Practice for Birds Phil 3:4-11 If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more:5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. 7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing [...]