“This is the kind of fast day I’m after:to break the chains of injustice,get rid of exploitation in the workplace,free the oppressed,cancel debts.What I’m interested in seeing you do is:sharing your food with the hungry,inviting the homeless poor into your homes,putting clothes on the shivering

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