Weekly Devo: The Road to Pleasantville

Weekly Devo: The Road to Pleasantville

It’s the quintessential summer morning and I’m driving on the road that connects our home to our church, Pleasantville Road. This nicely-named road connects Marilyn and me to home and church in more ways than you might imagine. If you’ll give me a minute, I’d love to...
Laundry, toilets and other things

Laundry, toilets and other things

  Our life seems so busy all the time. Our family is always running, I seem to have an endless agenda, mostly due to the fact that I never say, “No, sorry, I just don’t have time for that right now.” My days are filled with work, appointments,...
Life Can be Tough

Life Can be Tough

I have been trying to make an effort to weekly follow-up with folks at Life Church – to make a connection and genuinely hear about how things are going for them. I just got off the phone with a young father of two small boys.  I noticed he had been very faithfully...
Weekly Devo: The Road to Pleasantville

Weekly Devo: Under His Wing

The other day as I was mowing, a killdeer (which is a bird… not a deer) ran out in front of my tractor screaming in protest, dragging her wing along the ground as though it was badly broken. Suddenly she would stop, turn and charge the mower, then limp off to the side...
Weekly Devo: The Road to Pleasantville

Cassie’s Heart for Kids

My name is Cassie Emrick.  I am so excited to be involved in the children’s ministry at Life Church!  I wanted to share a little bit about myself to help my church family get to know me a little bit better.  I am currently the K-5 Life Kids director.  I am absolutely...
Connections and Compassion

Connections and Compassion

Our Small Group serves at Foundation Dinners. Generally, our group is very involved but for multiple reasons we only had a skeletal group serving during a recent visit. We were feeling very rushed to get everything accomplished in the time we had.  Our kitchen...