Hi Family, This is my last URC Weekly, so there will probably be fewer super-long and wordy posts from here on out…  OK, gonna write announcements first, then final words: 1) CHRISTMAS EVE CELEBRATION: THANK YOU to everyone who practiced and/or participated in our Christmas Eve event!  It took some work, but it was a [...]

Hi Family, What an amazing retreat.  It was more than what we prayed for, and the One who answered our prayers deserves every ounce of praise.  (Psalm 150) Praise Him for using Dave to speak to our hearts about the simple but unbelievable Gospel once again.  Praise Him for freeing us to sing songs of [...]

Hi Family, So hard to believe that this Sunday will be Grace and my last retreat with y’all…  Ironically, we’ll have the same guest speaker as our first retreat, but everything else will be different.  If you look at the picture from our first retreat, I wanna clear up two things: 1) Yes, those are [...]

Hi Church, When I was a social worker in inner city Chicago, we had this one town hall meeting, open to all residents of a particular poverty-stricken neighborhood.  The city was trying to randomly relocate these families to other parts of the city, while their neighborhood would be destroyed and remade into a wealthier place [...]