Tag: Hospitality
Disability Awareness Sunday resources
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Resources for Disability Awareness Sunday, set for October 15, are now available for churches desiring worship experiences and spaces accessible to all God’s children.
You’re invited to join us
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Rev. Margie Crawford reminisces about what Thanksgiving meals were like growing up and what made them so special.
5 stewardship lessons from a homecoming
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On a not-so-good visit to the church where he grew up, Ken Sloane learns a few things about hospitality and stewardship and shares them.
Michigan to welcome 1,600 Afghans soon
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Afghan refugees have started to arrive in Michigan. Churches are encouraged to become sponsors, offering a warm welcome and support. Here’s how to begin.
Hospitality worthy of gold medals
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Glenn Wagner shares the life-changing impact of hospitality as taught in the Bible and experienced in real life. How can you share the gift of hospitality?
Water, woods, and hospitality!
![Hospitality at Lake Louise includes games.](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Lake-Louise-Neil-Haney.jpg)
What does hospitality look like in the great outdoors? It looks like water balloons, kayaks, cozy cabins, and a warm welcome from LLCC Director Neil Haney.
The power of love and compassion
![DeeDee rescued through power of love](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Hills-and-dog.jpg)
Love makes a difference. Rev. Elizabeth Hill, Superintendent of the Heritage District, talks about her family’s experience with rescue dogs.
Recovery from wildfires takes love
![California-Nevada Conference Disaster Response Coordinator Sonja Edd-Bennett (left) shows Revs. Jacey and Emily Pickens-Jones (right), pastors of Sonoma United Methodist Church, features of USB chargers from the conference being donated to the church's hospitality enter.](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CA-Fires-Nov-2019.png)
United Methodist responses to the annual wildfires in California include immediate help and longer-term efforts to tend to the needs of those who’ve been through traumatic events.
Please don’t invite me to coffee hour
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Every church has them but not every church makes coffee hour a welcome place for visitors. John Harnish offers comments.
Poet shares psalm about sanctuary
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Jack Amick considers what it might be like to live inside the four walls of a church in search of safety and hope as Texas bishops call for a solution… Continue Reading Poet shares psalm about sanctuary