Wellspring Women’s Ministry

Everyone in the surrounding farm community where I grew up knew the service was starting in our church when they heard the bell ring from our steeple each Sunday.  It was a huge privilege for the kids in church to help my Dad pull the rope.  He would carefully select someone from his Sunday school [...]

Pursuing Fear When I was young, I loved that tingle of fear I got from watching those grade B 1950’s era studio-made horror movies. Movies like Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (where did she get her clothes?), The Thing that Could Not Die, and my all time favorite Ed Wood classic, Plan 9 from [...]

I have been attending a Beth Moore Bible study with the teenage girls at our church, “Living Beyond Yourself, Exploring the Fruit of the Spirit.” I am learning much about the person of the Holy Spirit and the amazing gifts that He imparts to us. The chapter on the gift of patience has particularly impressed [...]

In this four part series, we will talk about how life is a lot like a business meetings.  This is a problem for me, since I do not care much for business meetings and I spend a good portion of my working life either conducting or participating in them.  The basic concept is good – [...]

During the Christmas holidays, we fill our homes with the tantalizing aromas of gingerbread, peppermint, cookies baking, homemade candies, and other soothing smells like evergreen trees and wood burning fires.  We surround ourselves with the cheering visions of twinkling lights, crystal ornaments, decoratively wrapped packages, Christmas trees, Nativity scenes, holly, mistletoe, poinsettias, bows, and holiday [...]