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I remember a lot of things at night. Perhaps you do, too. I usually start with everything I didn’t get done that day. The calls not made, the emails not answered, the deadlines missed. Then the remembrances expand to the things I wish […]

In 2015, Countryside accepted an invitation to become the Christian partner in the Tri-Faith Initiative—a bold vision to bring Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities together as neighbors on the Tri-Faith […]

It’s that time of the year. Summer. Longer days. Shorter nights. It is the season for summer road trips: vacation destinations, family reunions, day trips for sightseeing, picnicking, hiking, swimming—just about […]

Countryside Community Church has been awarded the Accessible to All (A2A) certification by the United Church of Christ Disabilities Board of Directors. With this designation, Countryside joins a growing network […]

The kitchen was quiet as I showed my four-year-old how to mix water into his paints, his small hand dragging a heavy stroke of cobalt across the paper. Then the […]

God’s call on the life of Abram/Abraham was essentially a call to disengage from the domiciles of dying paradigms and set out on a journey of faith to an unknown land. With […]

There are always bullies, I think as I look at the two preschoolers. Maybe one of these kids will be bullied; maybe one will bully someone else. Certainly, both will […]

Who among us has not spent frantic minutes (or hours) looking for our glasses or our keys or our phone—only to discover that they were on our head or in […]

“My yoke is easy and my burden is light,” Jesus said. Then what’s that on my back? A number of people I meet imagine that faith means less work and strain. But that wasn’t Jesus’s promise. He […]

A few years ago, I went through a season when God stopped showing up. Or at least, that’s how it felt. I used to sense God’s nearness everywhere: in worship that made […]