Posts from 2019

Summer Merge, or SumMerge as we’ve been calling it, started out as a way to keep students connected to one another over the summer. A handful of students stay in town every summer, and we wanted to give them a chance to get together a couple of times a month to have a worship service together. When Lauren Knicl and I started thinking of topics to do a series on, Roxy (our Mentor/Pastor/Boss at Merge) told us that whatever we…

Dear Readers, This past week, people from Merge and I attended the IGRC Annual Conference in Peoria, Illinois. If you aren’t sure what IGRC means, the Illinois Great Rivers Conference covers over 800 churches south of I-80, including Merge. On June 6th through the 8th, I witnessed voting sessions that decided who would represent us at the 2020 General Conference. While many other topics were voted over, this was the most important because these people could make a difference at…