Dynamic Leaders

Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love Sharing the Gifts of Jesus

The Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love brought to the world through the birth of Jesus that we celebrate every year during Advent is a blessing that is meant to be shared. This year we are asking the children and youth of the Giddings-Lovejoy Presbytery to share that blessing by helping make Christmas a little brighter for the children and youth…

Can I Borrow the Keys to the Church?

Who has the Keys to our Churches? While we can think of a set of keys tangibly as a physical privilege and responsibility of leadership, they can also be symbolic of capabilities, power, and access. Many Church memberships are declining, younger generations are faced with competing activities on Sunday mornings (and Wednesday evenings), and our congregations are aging. In a…

Lessons I Learned When I Gave Three-Quarters of my Possessions Away

Blog Post by Rev. Marc Wendleton Pastor at Moro Presbyterian & First Presbyterian-Brighton, in Illinois Member of the Dynamic Leaders Team This past June, I got married, and my new wife, Linda, and I bought a new home together.  We both had lost our previous spouses, so we had not only our own stuff but our late spouses’ stuff and…