I love watching children open presents. Their personalities come out. Some of them rip into their presents, wrapping paper and cardboard flying everywhere, and when it’s all over they are sitting in the middle of a pile of paper, boxes, and gifts with a big

Something about Christmas invokes a longing for peace; the carols we sing, the candlelight, the ambiance. This shouldn’t surprise us. The connection of peace with Christmas goes back to the very first Christmas. The angels appeared to the shepherds to announce the birth of Jesus,

“Open the wells of grace and salvation, pour the rich streams deep into my heart.Cleanse and refine my thought and affection,seal me and make me pure as thou art.” Three deep-rooted CMC churches (Cherry Glade, Maple Glen, and Oak Dale), along with one Morgantown, West

In Luke 10:2 Jesus told his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field” (NIV). Going into God’s harvest field is equally valuable to those who go and