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Wellington Heights Community Church
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Wellington Heights Community Church is a multi-cultural faith community joining God in reconciling all things through worship, reconciliation and neighborhood development.
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Practicing Our Faith: Gratitude with Jenna Jandik
1w ago00:11:45Tap to summarizeThis summer, we’re launching a new series: Practicing Our Faith. This series will highlight voices from within our community, sharing how each of us embodies spiritual practices in everyday life. Spiritual Practices are concrete activities to engage in to open ourselves to the transforming presence of God, and Embodiment Sundays will offer guided ways to step into the practice together. Embodiment Sunday guides are available on the digital newsletter. Sign up by scanning the QR code at the back table.Gratitude is more than a response to good circumstances; it is a way of seeing and being that helps us hold sorrow and goodness together, trusting that God is present even here. As a spiritual practice, gratitude slows us down, helping us notice glimmers of hope without denying pain or injustice. Jenna Jandik is a former first-grade teacher, current substitute teacher, and child mindfulness educator. She is married to her high school sweetheart, Cody. They met coaching soccer and continue to spend many hours on the soccer field cheering on their two sons. Jenna is a southeast Cedar Rapids native and enjoys being outside, creating at the ceramic studio, and loving on her people.
Transcribe →Practicing Our Faith: Prayer Walking with Kyrah Hitz
3w ago00:21:06Tap to summarizeWe’ve launched 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. Spiritual Practices are concrete activities to engage in to open ourselves to the transforming presence of God. Our Embodiment Sundays will offer guided ways to step into the practice together.Spiritual Practice Definition: Prayer WalkingPrayer Walking is the practice of praying while walking and intentionally being present with God in a specific place. As we move through a neighborhood, street, or community space, we keep our eyes open to what God is doing, allowing what we see and experience to shape our prayers. Rather than focusing only on our own needs, prayer walking invites us to join God’s care and concern for the people and places around us. It is a way of paying attention, listening for the Spirit’s leading, and praying with greater awareness right where we are. Kyrah Nitz is an Elementary Education student at the University of Northern Iowa. She is currently the Children’s Ministry Coordinator here at Wellington Heights Community Church and loves working with children and families. Kyrah grew up in Cedar Rapids and Marion and now lives in Independence, IA. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, listening to music, and cooking.
Transcribe →Practicing Our Faith: Movement with Nick Mundorf
4w ago00:19:25Tap to summarizeThis 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.
Transcribe →Pentecost Sunday: Visio Divina
May 2400:14:56Tap to summarizeThe 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.
Transcribe →Living What We Profess - Jeremiah 17:1-11, CEB
May 1700:41:03Tap to summarizeOn 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.
Transcribe →Home Blessing
May 1000:15:39Tap to summarizeAs 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!
Transcribe →Living What We Profess: Jeremiah 29:7, NLV
May 300:14:24Tap to summarizeRooted 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.
Transcribe →Respect The Journey: Don’t Skip To The Good Part - Luke 24:13–35
Apr 1900:29:18Tap to summarizeOn 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.
Transcribe →Holy Week - Easter Sunday, John 20:1-18, CEB
Apr 500:31:45Tap to summarizeIn 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.
Transcribe →Good Friday 2026
Apr 300:08:24Tap to summarizeGood 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.
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