Andi Voinovich's blog

What are the rituals and routines that keep you grounded, mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually each day?

In these next few weeks, I'd guess there are going to be some really good days and some really hard days. And you know what, that's ok! Tonight we'll check in and hear from Scripture and a story.

We're starting the morning with a body prayer from Julian of Norwich. This prayer can be done sitting or standing. Join us!

Recently, Pastor Claude and I have received a multitude of  requests for weddings in the church. It's an exciting time! In preparing for these weddings, I'm taking a training on Prepare/Enrich, a helpful tool for pre-marital counseling. Prepare/Enrich emphasizes the importance of communication in a relationship. This makes sense! So many relationships start AND end because of communication. Sometimes we think we're expressing something clearly, but the message received is not what we thought we'd sent. 

When I was in college, I worked as a Student Leadership Assistant in our Center for Leadership creating and facilitating leadership workshops and conferences for students on campus. Often we'd get requests from on campus groups seeking to update their mission and vision statements. 

Although December 25 has come and passed and you may be tempted to put all of the Christmas decorations away, to stop singing carols, and to move on to the next holiday, wait! There's more! Did you know that for Christians, Christmas is not just a day, but a season? Christmastide continues until Epiphany on January 6. Next Sunday, we'll continue to "Carol On" for Christmas!

In college when I moved into an apartment for the first time, one of the things I was most excited about was having a kitchen. What I quickly learned was that cooking was much easier for me than baking. With cooking, you could ad lib, play with ingredients, make replacements easily, but with baking, every time I tried to play or experiment, it completely flopped.