Word on the Street

On his 18thbirthday, a young man found himself scouring the wooded areas of Fredericksburg for a campsite. His relationship with his adoptive parents had never gone well, but…

In the second grade, I wrote an award-winning story entitled “The search for the sky’s end.” It began, of course, with a princess sitting on her balcony. Some…

The community had watched a small African-American woman push shopping carts between three different corners of the Massaponax corridor for nearly a year. Passersby had showered her with…

A young man showed up at Micah shortly after his mom passed away. As a senior in high school, he had been her primary caregiver, but when she…

Last summer, I came across a man who had curled up on a bed of mulch in one of the church parking lots because he couldn’t move very…

It was one of the coldest days in close to a decade. The temperature at mid afternoon had hardly crested the teens. Worse yet, just about every public…

Pancakes. Why Pancakes? It’s Fat Tuesday! In Christian history, Fat Tuesday has been celebrated because, at one time, meats, eggs, milk, and fats (sweets) were given up for…

Throughout the Lenten season Micah’s collaboration of churches will join for ecumenical worship at noon on Wednesdays. A special gathering will take place on Good Friday and Easter…

Joy did not even begin to describe the feelings I had the day an old friend walked back into Micah. Many years ago, she had spent close to…

My friend Carey says that loving our neighbor is not so different than a Sunday morning worship experience. “Where else can all of God’s children show up, be…