At last, the final day of Mission: Iowa 2010! Note that this isn’t the final blog entry for the trip. Expect more entries this week, including a wrap-up from today, additional photos in new posts and added retro-actively to older posts, some video footage, and posts for those who went on the mission trip to [...]
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Mission: Iowa 2010 – Day 5
Posted in Mission: Iowa 2010, tagged carpet tacking, cedar rapids, iowa, marion, mission trip, wal-mart, witness on July 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Mission: Iowa 2010 – Day 4
Posted in Mission: Iowa 2010, tagged cedar rapids, iowa, mission trip on July 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Okay, dear reader, I’m under the pressure of deadline and so this post is missing not only details but also photos. I’ll get them up in the next twenty-four hours. In the meantime… Bearing Witness This morning’s wake-up bell went off in the early part of the 7:00am hour so we had enough time to [...]
Mission: Iowa 2010 – Day 3
Posted in Mission: Iowa 2010, tagged americorps, cedar rapids, cooking for fifty, dr. strangelove, GPS, iowa, kernals, kiss cam, mazie, meatborg, mission trip, mollys, smorgasborg, stormtrooper, trevor's mom, tuck, water boy on July 11, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Good morning, dear reader. We gladly took the opportunity to sleep in just a bit today and didn’t go out to the worksites until 9:00am. LouAnn and Bob whipped up a great breakfast of scrambled eggs with ham and sausage. I asked LouAnn if she’s used to cooking for so many people and she told [...]
Mission: Iowa 2010 – Day 2
Posted in Mission: Iowa 2010, tagged BBQ, block by block, cedar rapids, iowa, karate, mission trip, painting, relief, swimming, tucking on July 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Greetings, dear reader. Just a quick note to say I’ve added photos to yesterday’s blog post about Day 1, if you wanted to head back that way. Also, it looks like Faith Journey Life Journey is off to a great start with over 150 independent visitors in its first twenty-four hours of existence. Thank you [...]
Mission: Iowa 2010 – Day 1
Posted in Mission: Iowa 2010, tagged cedar rapids, flood relief, hope, iowa, mazie, minnetonka, mission trip on July 9, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Hey parents, friends, and family, Forty-five people from Excelsior United Methodist Church and Minnetonka United Methodist Church are on a mission trip in Cedar Rapids, Iowa this week and this is our tale. I’m Nate Melcher, the Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries at Excelsior United Methodist Church and I’ll be blogging throughout the [...]
Excelsior UMC at Pride 2010
Posted in Reconciling, tagged loring park, mongo, pride, reconciling on July 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Lay member Nancy Glades wrote this wrap-up of Excelsior UMC’s participation in the Pride Festival held in Minneapolis last month. I’ll try to get photos of the event up soon. -nm I wanted to share with you my experience at the Gay Pride Parade on June 27, 2010. I am chair of our EUMC Reconciling [...]
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Posted in Announcements, tagged evangelism, rss on July 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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