
PRIDE: Milwaukee Pride Fest
June is LGBTQ Pride Month, honoring the 1969 Stonewall riots and celebrating the strides toward equality for all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Community of Christ holds the worth of all persons as one of our enduring principles, and several congregations throughout the Headwaters Mission Center actively participated in Pride events in their communities. This is the first of several posts highlighting these events. Stay tuned for more! The Milwau


37 Years and a Dare
When you ask, “Why do you do such and such this way?”, how often do you get the response, “Well that’s the way we’ve always done it.” How long do you keep doing it the way it’s always been done? In Rockford, the answer is 37. 37 years. For 37 years we did our Firemen’s Breakfast essentially the same way. This year we dared to change it! The Rockford congregation’s ties with the North Park Fire Department go back many years. In the late 1970s a baptismal service was plan


I Have Called You by Your Name
As the hymn says, God gifts us, calls us, and choses us. We are God's! All around the Headwaters Mission Center, God is calling individuals into new expressions of their faith. This spring alone, we have seen several ordinations that we'd like to celebrate and lift up in prayer. Vern Erickson, Stacy Corless, Serena Sato, Gary Pfann, and Don Warner were ordained to the office of Elder; Judy Richardson and Kennedy Warner were ordained to the office of Teacher; Taylor Warner was