That’s right, bigger. As in, larger or taller, not more complex or sophisticated, although if wishing made it so... 

At the March NUMC Board meeting, NUMC officially signed on to the Apartheid-Free Pledge

Christians from more than 200 churches across denominations came together on Palm Sunday to process to the Capitol.

Each year, over 350,000 Americans experience sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) outside of a hospital. CPR and early defibrillation with an automated external defibrillator (AED) increase a victim’s chance of survival significantly. An AED is a portable electronic device that can audibly prompt and deliver an electric shock that will disrupt or stop the heart’s irregular electrical activity. In November 2008 our church was able to purchase an AED thanks to Myrtle “Peggy” Houston. Peggy, who died in January 2008 at the age of 100, was a nurse at the Northfield Hospital for many years.

Easter begins in the dark. 

Before the lilies, before the alleluias, before the sun rises—Mary Magdalene comes to the tomb. The one she followed has died publicly and brutally on a Roman cross. 

The stone is rolled away. She runs to tell the others: “They have taken the Lord… and we do not know where they have laid him.” She is not looking for resurrection—only trying to make sense of loss. 

She returns, weeping outside the tomb. 

If she is seeking anything, it is closure. A body to anoint.