August 2022 – Open Church Community

My Parent’s Ministry Story

It was in 1962 – the year that John F. Kennedy was assassinated. I remember because I was 10 years old at the time. Mom and Dad decided to make a complete shift in our family’s direction. Dad had just been offered a lucrative offer to become a Vice President of an Top Forty Insurance […]

“A Few Figs From Thistles.”

At the turn of the century before the last one, a woman named Edna St. Vincent Malay wrote a book of poetry called “A Few Figs From Thistles.” The very title explains what the poems were about – finding some good in hard times when all you can do is trust that somehow you were […]

Imagine #8

Imagine if the Church relalized that if they simply did what they have been told to do in their own Bible, that they would not have to worry about “cancel culture” myths, about the “liberals” trying to get rid of Christmas, or about putting an end to our beliefs. If they simply did what they […]