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This summer, we’re launching a new series as a spin-off of Stories Among Us with a focused theme: Practicing Our Faith. This series will highlight voices from within our community, sharing how each of us embodies spiritual practices in everyday life. Our Embodiment Sundays will offer guided ways to step into, and practice, each rhythm together. Let’s be inspired to intentionally practice our faith.Spiritual Practice Definition: MovementThis week, we’re exploring the practice of movement. How caring for our bodies can become a meaningful expression of worship, prayer, and connection with God.Nick MundorfNick grew up in northern Linn County. He currently resides in Marion, Iowa, with his amazing wife, Gretchen, and two wonderful kids, Rory and Boyse. Nick graduated from North Linn High School and got his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Upper Iowa University. He has been working in the financial industry for 19 years, and mortgages specifically for the last ten. In his free time, he loves to watch and support his kids' youth activities. He is also an avid runner and loves to golf.

The Day of Pentecost celebrates the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the fulfillment of God’s promise, the proclamation of the Good News, and the Church's birth and growth through the Spirit’s power. On Pentecost Sunday, we will be embodying the practice of Visio Divina. Visio Divina, or “holy seeing,” invites us to pray with our eyes. Check out the digital newsletter for the image to guide our practice together.

On this episode, you are in for a treat as Pastor Keeyon interviews his long-time friend, Antonio Byrd. Antonio walks us through his faith journey and highlights how important it is for us to bask in the unconditional love of Christ. That same love that enoucarges us to be one as we read in our scripture reading. John 17:1-11, CEB Jesus prays1When Jesus finished saying these things, he looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that the Son can glorify you. 2 You gave him authority over everyone so that he could give eternal life to everyone you gave him. 3 This is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you sent. 4 I have glorified you on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. 5 Now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I shared with you before the world was created.6 “I have revealed your name to the people you gave me from this world. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. 8 This is because I gave them the words that you gave me, and they received them. They truly understood that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.9 “I’m praying for them. I’m not praying for the world but for those you gave me, because they are yours. 10 Everything that is mine is yours and everything that is yours is mine; I have been glorified in them. 11 I’m no longer in the world, but they are in the world, even as I’m coming to you. Holy Father, watch over them in your name, the name you gave me, that they will be one just as we are one.

As the season shift and many of us turn toward spring cleaning, this episode invites you to go deeper into a spiritual tending of the spaces we call home. Through gentle guidance and prayer, you’ll be led to move room by room, noticing, blessing, and inviting God‘s presence into the everyday places where life unfolds. This practice is great for individuals, families, or roommates!

Rooted in the vision of Jeremiah 29:7, this Sunday we reflect on the call to seek the well-being of our city and how that work is deeply connected to our own flourishing. We share the story of how Wellington Heights Community Church began engaging the Flourishing Neighborhood Index, a tool designed to help communities listen well and work together toward shared flourishing. You’ll also hear directly from a Coe College student involved in this process.

On this episode, Jesus reveals that we must trust the journey that God has us on. Through Jesus’ interactions with the disciples, we see the value of not rushing to the good part, but trusting the process that God has for us and others. Knowing and trusting that He is with us through it all.

In a world that still knows grief, uncertainty, and longing, Easter reminds us that resurrection often meets us in the places of sorrow and surprise. In John 20:1-18, we find Mary standing at the tomb, weeping, only to discover that Jesus is not absent, but alive and calling her by name. Easter invites us to open ourselves to the hope that God is still bringing new life out of what feels lost, and still meeting us in deeply personal and transformative ways.

Good Friday asked us not to rush to resurrection, but to sit with death. In this reflection, we are invited to remain at the foot of the cross, to face mortality, honestly, without skipping a head to Easter morning. Drawing from John’s account of Jesus‘s death, this episode names Good Friday as a place where we learn to live by learning how to face death.

On Maundy Thursday, we stand at the threshold of departure. This brief reflection invites listeners into the mystery of leaving, traveling light, speaking love now, and trusting that God is with us.

On these Holy Week episodes for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, we’ll listen slowly to John’s Gospel through the peripheral practice of Lectio Divina. Each episode offers space to receive and notice what stands out in scripture, respond honestly, and carry what is given as we journey with Jesus toward the cross.