By Karen Kreider Yoder FMCSF’s Green Team gave this “Earth Moment” on June 2, 2019. If we cannot acknowledge the problem and mourn, we cannot change our actions and heal the Earth. When I was a young girl in the 1960s, humans began producing plastic. Since then, our plastic use has grown steadily. From 2000…
Acts 16:16-34 I’m reading a book in which the author, Cheryl Strayed, talks about working with poor, white middle school girls who were deemed not just “high risk” but “highest risk” by the school they attended. These girls had had the roughest of lives before they were even technically teenagers. Poverty, incarceration, missing or drugged-out…
By Jim Musselman FMCSF’s “Green Team” gave this “Earth Moment” on Sunday, May 19. Greta Thunberg is a 16-year-old high school student who lives in Sweden. She is a climate activist who has organized an international school strike to fight climate change. Greta gave a speech about climate in London on April 23rd. Here are…
By Sheri Hostetler Psalm 23, Acts 9:36-43 Our story from Acts takes place in Joppa, a coastal town about 35 miles west of Jerusalem. It is now a suburb of Tel Aviv. Dorcas, or Tabitha (the Hebrew version of her name) — actually, I’m going to call her Tabitha because I can’t get this middl-school…
By Kinari Webb FMCSF’s “Green Team” gave this “Earth Moment” on Sunday, May 5, 2019. If we cannot mourn, we cannot heal. Since a human walked on the moon only 50 years ago, earth has lost 60% of the animals it had then. For a moment think about your favorite animal. Now mourn with me…
Luke 24:1-12 This is how our story begins: “On the first day of the week, when it was still dark, the women came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared.” When it was still dark, the women who loved Jesus set off to do the equivalent of a first-century embalming — taking…
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