The Missouri Methodists May 2021

News and Updates

The Road Towards Healing

April 30, 2021

By Rev. Sandy Nenadal Watching the news as March neared its end, I was struck by the amount of grief and loss people in our nation are experiencing. Over 550,000 people have died from COVID-19. The economic impact of the virus has disrupted many. Stories of rising anti-Asian violence, ...

5 Ministry Ideas from NextGen Conversations

April 29, 2021

The NextGen Conversations podcast seeks to empower NextGen leaders to create dynamic, Christ-centered ministries. In its debut season, we spoke with several Missouri ministry leaders about concepts and ideas that are working in their context. Consider how these five might translate to your...

Play Ball!

April 19, 2021

As Opening Weekend of the 2021 Major League Baseball season coincided with Easter weekend, fans across Missouri returned to their home teams’ ballparks and their local church – in many cases for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began. As any United Methodist pastor will ...

The Call to Motherhood

April 19, 2021

Stories of fostering and adoption are traumatic by their very nature. The reason a child is separated from his or her natural born parents comes out of tragedy. In some cases the root cause of that tragedy was occurring the child’s entire life, perhaps before the child was born or even ...

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