Bread of Life was a “Cross†Over” resource Pastor Sara Yotter and I originally created for use with the John texts in worship and learning environments during Pentecost 2015. Bread of Life offers a menu of ideas for use in ...

Children illustrating the sermon, during the sermon -Up Front! The resources below were in response to a post on the ELCA Youth Ministry Network Facebook page asking the following, “I have no idea where to even begin with the ...

I am visiting my mother in IA this week. Is a brief three-days together. Mom lives in an assisted living complex, 14 miles from where she and my father lived and farmed for 67 years. My father died six years ago this month. No matter ...

I admit I have had pangs of guilt about the depth of my grieving over the death of our Great Dane this past Wednesday morning. But any doubts about the appropriateness of my emotions have been lessened and normalized by the more than ...

As a Christian Educator, I have unabashedly borrowed, re-purposed and utilized other people’s imaginative concepts and resources. But the phrase, HomeGrown Faith, was the result of my own “hav’n a g-o-o-d idea,” as my two young ...