Shrove Tuesday Party Packs

Thanks to Building Faith and Faith Alive Christian Resources for sharing this Great Idea! "Many churches celebrate Shrove Tuesday with a big pancake supper. If your church does not do a pancake supper, or you know some families won't be able…

Countdown to Easter

This Great Idea coms from Jill Benson, a DWELL Curriculum Coordinator from Network, who wrote, Help Kids Count Down to Easter with a Simple Paper Chain. Benson asserts that the length of Lent can make it cumbersome and confusing for kids.…

Six New Things – Week of January 25, 2021

Perhaps as a pre-cursor to Lent, we've got a journeying theme, this week: One Starting with Keila Dawson's Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book (Beaming) is "the first picture book about the creation and distribution of…

Raising Voices; Raising Funds

Thanks to Patrick Senense and the Youth Group of Magnolia Park UMC for creating (and Christa Meland of the MN Conf. UMC for sharing) this Great Idea! In the MN Annual Conference UMC's newsletter (01.21.21), Meland writes: "Last summer,…

Shared Building Builds Community

Thanks to the MN Conference UCC for sharing this Great Idea! This is verbatim from the MN Conf. UCC weekly COMMAntary and website: Several years ago, Rev. Dr. Rachael Keefe, pastor at Living Table United Church of Christ in South Minneapolis,…

Brave Enough to See It; Brave Enough to Be It

The Ministry Lab's Director, Rev. Emily Meyer, made up this Great Idea after being "introduced" to Amanda Gorman in Rev. Elsa Cook's Pandemic Prayer for Epiphany 3 post on Jan. 19 - only to be bowled over by her at the Inauguration, the next…

Six New Things – Week of January 18, 2021

One Who can lead us toward healing and reconciliation? A little child! Let Taylor Rouanzion's Rainbow Boy (Beaming) light the way, reminding us of simple delight and the joy of diversity. Two Struggling with where or how to lead in these…

Reconciling Community Art

This Great Idea was inspired by the mural created for the UMC's Our Movement Forward, 2019 summit. Communities are deeply struggling with hatred, racism, division, and Covid. How might your congregation be a place for open, honest conversations,…

Health and Human Service Day/Week

Thanks to the Council for Health & Human Service Ministries of the UCC for inspiring this Great Idea! CHHSM folks created a Special Worship Liturgy and Prayers to support a Health and Human Services Sunday, which they have designated…

Six New Things – Week of January 11, 2021

One Illustrated Ministry has a plethora of beautiful offerings: free resources that connect families to RCL texts through 'til Lent six-week Lord's Prayer or Beatitudes online Sunday school curricula; For Lent: Psalms Coloring…