by Jess O Malley | Oct 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Wendie Bartelt, 57, and Chris Packard, 54 Wendie and Chris were members of Community of Life Church in Oregon, before it closed in May. Leaving one church and developing another community has been challenging. Your home church, Wendie said, “is kind of your family....
by Jess O Malley | Oct 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
Our Preschool has been loving the fall! The preschoolers enjoyed a beautiful day at Schuster’s Pumpkin Farm last week. We enjoyed a hayride, corn maize and of course picking out a pumpkin. And at the end of the month, we’ll trick-or-treat through the staff...
by Jess O Malley | Oct 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
During my 1:1 meeting last week we looked at 1 Corinthians 4. We were pleasantly surprised to see the verses that lined up with our October theme of Stewardship. Here is what verse 7 says in the New Living Translation (NLT): “What do you have that God hasn’t given...
by Jess O Malley | Sep 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
‘And this I remember of Boromir as a boy, when we together learned the tale of our sires and the history of our city, that always it displeased him that his father was not king. ‘‘How many hundreds of years needs it to make a steward a king, if the king returns not?’’...
by Jess O Malley | Sep 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
This is part of an ongoing series that celebrates how families from the Church are living out their calling as Household Wells. This month’s focus is Work. My son Charlie didn’t wake up Wednesday thinking, “I’m going to do God’s work!” He just wanted to make some...
by Jess O Malley | Sep 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
Does what we do even matter? I’ve been pondering that a lot these last few weeks. This month’s Revival theme, Work, is impressively on point at my house. In one week, I’m starting a new job at the Wisconsin State Journal, the first time since 2013 that I’ll be working...
