Adopt Authenticity for the Holidays and Beyond

By Katrina Goodrich Authenticity. Take a moment to let that word sink into your bones and meditate on its meaning. It has become a buzz word within the business community in recent years because many people have realized that the more authentic and genuine their brand and company seems (and hopefully is) the better their product or service sells. The church...

Consistent Thankfulness

Consistent Thankfulness

Oct 23, 2019

By Katrina Goodrich …And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him....

The Recognition Committee: 2019 Recognitions

The Recognition Committee: 2019 Recognitions

Sep 25, 2019

The Recognition Committee is the newly named committee choosing the Robe of Achievement and Women In Ministry Everywhere recipients. Last year was the first year for the Women In Service Everywhere (or WISE) to be awarded. This year your committee (Janet Butler, Marcy Kersten, and Karen Payne) chose a woman who has served our denomination and her church for...

TEAM MORE

TEAM MORE

Sep 25, 2019

By Katrina Goodrich These are excerpts from the exit testimonies of SCSC 2019 Team More. All praise glory and honor belong to God—how great and wonderful He has been to me. I didn’t know I would be a part of SCSC this year. My plan was to work this summer but God had other plans. God was calling me back to serve in SCSC this year because He had things He wanted...

Effective Outreach

Effective Outreach

Jun 26, 2019

By Katrina Goodrich With so much focus on outreach and discussion on different ways to be involved in your community, I think it’s important to take a small step back and look at our individual church and community situations because not everything that has succeeded in one place is going to work in another. We need to be mindful of the fact that just because...

The Women’s Society’s Connection

By Katrina Goodrich The world is a smaller place than it was in 1844. The newest communication technology released that year was the telegraph. Today we have cell phones and the internet; we can hop on an airplane and be halfway around the world in less than a day. But while the world is a smaller place today, the distance between people is larger than ever. I...