Upcoming Events

Last week numerous Messiah North attendees took time out to volunteer at the Ridgefield Family Resource Center.  The volunteers helped to assemble snack packs for kids and also wrote notes of encouragement to go along with them. "What a marvelous experience it was to volunteer at the Ridgefield Family Resource Center," said interim Messiah Nor...

All interested in learning more about the Godly Play program at Messiah Lutheran are invited to "Godly Play 101" on Wednesday, September 20 from 6-7pm. The event will be held at Messiah's Hazel Dell campus in the downstairs Godly Play Room (#105). Children and their parents or guardians are invited to check out the Godly Play space and walk through...

Real love creates a climate where forgiveness and understanding are readily given and received. In all his parables on forgiveness and reconciliation, Jesus calls anyone who would be his disciples to be committed to the work of reconciliation, to be always ready and willing to make the first move toward forgiveness, to be actively engaged in the wo...

In the 'old days' churches used to have professional Church Directory companies come in, take family pictures, sell family pictures (to you,) and then make church directories for free out of the proceeds.  That was all well and good, but not what most of us do anymore. Now churches (like Messiah) have more sophisticated membership softwar...

If you read or study the New Testament much you are probably used to having the Apostle Paul in his letters tell people what they should and shouldn't be doing, and what it means to be the church, or live a godly life. I, at least, think of the Gospels more as books that tell the story of Jesus. They are stories and histories, if you will, as oppos...