When You Don’t Know Who’s Worshiping
Lee Roorda Schott says that unseen people you don’t yet know are likely worshiping with you online. She says this is an opportunity to enlarge…
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Lee Roorda Schott
Lee Roorda Schott is pastor of Valley United Methodist Church, Des Moines. She previously served at Women at the Well United Methodist Church. Located in the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women in Mitchellville, Iowa, it is one of only two United Methodist congregations within prisons in the United States. She is author of Foolish Church: Messy, Raw, Real, and Making Room (Cascade Books, 2019), available at Cokesbury and Amazon and The Fools’ Manual: A Study and Practice Guide for Foolish Church: Messy, Raw, Real, and Making Room (Cascade Books, 2019), also at Cokesbury and Amazon.
Do Your Church Programs Obscure Your True Mission?
Sometimes churches get so preoccupied with their own programs and a get-it-done approach to mission that they lose sight of their ultimate purpose. Lee Roorda…
Connecting with “Those People”
For four years, I’ve been the pastor of Women at the Well, a congregation within a women’s prison in Mitchellville, Iowa. I meet some amazing…