Category Archives: Ministry

Baseball/softball season is in “full swing!” The bleachers are filled with families and spectators who come to cheer for their team. Emotions are “all over the board,” depending upon the situation. When the umpire makes a questionable call, people verbally disagree. Recently, I read a sign on the back stop of a ball diamond, which...

Walter Sylvester of Lynnville took an extended mission trip to Southeast Asia, including Cambodia and Thailand, Apr. 27-May 11. He visited a number of missionaries in the area and did a few tourist things also. “I hope to share with you a few experiences and maybe stretch your thought patterns with some of my observations,”...

By Pastor Wayne Sneller, Sully First Reformed Church “Therefore, I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; but I discipline my body so that I myself will not be disqualified,” 1 Corinthians 9:26-27. Recently, I was the discus official at a Lynnville-Sully High School...

By Pastor Tim Morgan, Kellogg-Pleasant View United Methodist Churches We are, perhaps, only weeks away from the most cataclysmic turning point in American history. Our government – ours because it is of the people, by the people, and for the people – is poised to declare itself in open and deliberate rebellion against God. The United...

By Travis Albers, Sully First Reformed Church Youth and Education Director With the season of spring upon us, many of us find ourselves filled with hope coming off a long winter. We look at the flowers in bloom, the green grass, and the tractors in the fields, and we find ourselves filled with anticipation of great...

By Jerry Morningstar, Sully Community Church pastor Last summer, I saw a news story about an inflatable bounce house that took flight near Albany, NY, when a strong gust of wind lifted it off the ground. Inside were three kids – ages 5, 6, and 10. They tumbled out of the airborne fun center from around...