We’ve all been social distancing now for at least five and a half months and counting. COVID-19 has limited our social circles (or should have), it's cut short our opportunities for fun and recreation, and has dashed many of the plans we've had for ourselves. The pandemic has raged around the world and has become politicized in our country (to the detriment of us all).
Read MoreIn March 2020, college students left campus for spring break under the cloud of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the infection spread, most students were told to retrieve their belongings from their dorms and return home.
Read MoreRev. John F. Smith, retired clergy member of the Northern Illinois Conference, passed away on Wednesday, August 5, 2020, at age 90. During his ministry in the Northern Illinois Conference, he served at Symerton, Pierce, Dalton City, Casner, United Rock Run Parish, East Jordan, Sterling: Trinity, South Elgin: Community, and Sugar Grove.
Read MoreThere are several moments that are, for want of a better word, “delicious.” It’s when you get home after the last day at work before you go on vacation. The whole vacation stretches before you. It just doesn’t get better than that! It’s that moment when you finish cleaning your house and there is a nanosecond when it’s clean. Don’t anyone move, walk, sit, or do anything else to muss it!
Read MoreRev. WM Omar Logan Jr., member of the Northern Illinois Conference, passed away on Wednesday, July 22, 2020, at the age of 80. During his ministry in Northern Illinois Conference, he served Lombard: First, Elmwood Park, Ottawa: First, Mt. Prospect: Trinity, Aurora: Wesley, and Waukegan: First.
Read MoreA group of nearly 40 youth and adults traveled to Guatemala in July 2019 to build fuel-efficient, wood-burning stoves outside of San Lucas Toliman.
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