Growing Together

Growing Together is a newsletter supplement to The Messenger online but with a focus on what is happening in our culture and the issues that are challenging for the church.

As a small church conference, we cannot, and will not try to do what larger organizations do. What we will do, is discuss the issues that have an impact on us, with arguments and material to assist us to think through issues intelligently from several angles. As with everything we do, we are committed to the Bible as inspired by God and the truth by which we live.

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Easter 2021: Skandalon

Layton Friesen, EMC Conference Pastor, looking behind Jesus actions to see the tactics He was using to face down the power of the devil and of death in this final stage of His walk to the cross.

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My Mom is Dying

In truth, we are all on this particular journey, though it seems she is further along than my family and I anticipated. Or hoped.

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The Window

A poem

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Can We Be Thankful

This winter marks the two-year anniversary of Brenda’s initial bout with cancer.

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We Are Right to Grieve

This weekend—this year—isn’t a time for emotional detachment. It’s been a year of death, of separation and profound misunderstandings. And now it’s the Easter weekend—a time of death, of separation and profound misunderstandings.