An Advent Series: Shalom

The Sigh for Shalom By MVC Guest Author, Debbie Smallwood Don’t you long for it… that elusive land of completeness where days are winsome, whole, and simple where all our words are properly understood where our most heartfelt intentions are purely and gracefully...

An Advent Series: HOPE

An Advent Series: HOPE By MVC Guest Author, Lisa Cox Good things are going to happen.  This has been written on the chalkboard in my dining room since early summer. It was a daily reminder that things weren’t always going to be this way. In a time of grieving from...

The Security of Knowing Love

The Security of Knowing Love – By Pastor Dave Nieuwsma   One of the struggles our culture is walking through right now is living with an underlying fear, because of the uncertainty which daily is in front of us. And for each of us, that uncertainty may come...

The Next Right Thing

The Next Right Thing – By MVC Guest Author, Lisa Cox   When Frozen 2 came out, I was not the first in line to see it. Heck, even when it was released on video I waited. I first heard the song, “The Next Right Thing” when I was listening to Disney songs on...

Maintaining Joy During Quarantine

Maintaining Joy During Quarantine – By MVC Guest Author, Jaime Smith    Over a year ago I told my sister that sometimes I feel like I am left alone in a dark corner of the world to die. That’s how lonely I felt then in our little Hobbit hole on the...