Katie Z. Dawson
Community Baccalaureate Service
One of the ways that local churches can be in ministry with their community is to be aware of the transitions that others are experiencing. One of those “endings” my…
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Article Community Labor Day Worship
I am meeting in a local coffee shop this morning with other area pastors to plan our annual Labor Day community worship service. Our Labor Day ecumenical worship actually began…
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Video Creative Worship on Hope
Here, Katie describes the creative worship that followed Iowa's major flooding in 2010. Using the story of Noah and some participatory artwork, the worship brought hope and…
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Blog Born this Way
A good friend shared with me a post by Brian Kirk called "Lady Gaga, Lent, Teens, and Original Sin." It is a good read, but there are a few tweaks that I might have made to his…
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Blog Compassion Reserves
Everyone I talk to has their own take on how to best provide real financial resources to folks in need and in the past few weeks I have whittled the different approaches down to…
About This Author
Katie Z. Dawson is Pastor of First United Methodist Church in Marengo, Iowa. She blogs at Salvaged Faith.
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