EVERETT'S JAMES AND MY EVE
Heard from a Muse
These were some of my notes from the Muse and the Marketplace on July 29-30, 2023. Maybe no presenter will recognize some of what I heard online. Was it “sewed” or “sold?” Another phrase might be claimed by several of them. Were you there? What did you hear?
3 Weeks: Jazz, Food, Conversation
Sharing our love of jazz and exploring cultural relationships with our West African house guest.
3 DAYS
My third day with no food. The last meal was lunch on Wednesday: a turkey, cheddar, Parmesan ranch, black olives, and lettuce on marble rye with a caramel-pecan dessert bar from Belle Rose in Nevada, Missouri. The rest of Wednesday I had only water – no supper, no snack, no carbonated drink, no frappuccino. Just filtered tap water, sometimes with ice. The same for Thursday, Friday, and most of today: Saturday.
Cross+Gen 2018
Clouds moving through mountains, sunlight streaking across yellow autumn trees, and grazing elks breathed their magic on us at the Cross+Gen Conference held at the YMCA of the Rockies on October 1-4. My husband, Dyke, and I went with our pastor, Chris Deines, to figure out where our congregation was heading after a year of trying the Cross+Gen approach in our rural Missouri church.
The conference grows from the brain child – the faith child – of Dr. Rich Melheim, and his dream of stirring fresh energy into people of faith and their churches. So many children who grow up going to Sunday School find no place for church in their lives as adults. As a young Lutheran pastor, Rich searched for ways to surround his own children with the gift of Christ’s enduring love.
Over the years, he developed a process for both home and church, “. . . not a way of doing Sunday School. It’s a way of doing life.” Drop a Bible reading “onto a table with costumes and food and glow sticks and food and paint and food. . . . Watch both people and the text come alive.”