Life changes when you become responsible for someone else. When a child is born, when a family member needs our care, or when someone depends upon us in a new way, our priorities begin to change. We learn to think not only about what we need, but about what someone else needs from us. We become more intentional with our time, our resources, and our choices because we know that others are counting on us. That same truth is at the heart of this year’s stewardship theme: Steadfa

"Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven." — Matthew 5:16 As the summer winds down and students return to school, this season naturally invites us to reflect on new beginnings. Over this past year, we have experienced many changes, but we have also discovered something important: God has continued to be faithful and to bless us. With those blessings, let us ask ourselves, “How can we be a blessing to oth

A Reflection on the 250th Anniversary of American Independence “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” This part of the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence, was, and remains, a powerful witness to the resolve, not only to its authors, but to all w