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Ministries

A place to belong, serve, and grow.

From your very first Sunday to your deepest roots, there’s a way to connect at every age and stage of life.

Small group community

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Small Groups are where church gets personal.

Sunday fills the room; groups fill the week. A dozen or so people gathered around a table across Milwaukee — sharing life, praying, and following Jesus together. It’s the easiest next step after a weekend service.

Every Age, Every Stage

Ways to get connected.

  • Denise is retiring. The phone list she built isn’t.

    After eleven years coordinating volunteers, Denise is retiring in June. She left us something better than a farewell speech: a phone list…

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  • Hello world!

    Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!

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  • Ms. Alberts’ furnace, and the ledger line behind it

    The call came on a Tuesday: no heat, seventeen degrees outside, a landlord who’d stopped answering in October. By Thursday afternoon a…

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  • Spaced repetition is only useful if the learner knows it is happening

    Hide the mechanism and repetition feels like punishment. Explain it and the same repetition feels like the system paying attention. Same algorithm,…

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  • The pantry needs Thursday people

    Every Thursday at 4 PM, a line forms outside the fellowship hall, and by 6 it’s gone — sixty-some families, fed and…

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  • What 89 cents actually buys in a week

    People ask what the 89-cent number means day to day. Here’s one ordinary week from the March books: 1,240 pounds of groceries…

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  • What to do with a hard week

    Somebody in our church buried a parent this month. Somebody else got the diagnosis they’d been dreading, and somebody’s marriage is quietly…

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  • Why the keyboard fades

    The most useful thing Key Odyssey does is take something away. The on-screen keyboard is a scaffold, and a scaffold that never…

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  • Why we read one book of the Bible at a time

    Visitors sometimes notice that our preaching calendar looks slow. Fourteen weeks in John. A whole autumn in Exodus. No greatest-hits tour, no…

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On the Calendar

Upcoming gatherings.