Making Thanksgiving a Feast for All
by Jadon Haynes on November 27th, 2024
As we approach Thanksgiving, we're so thankful for you and everyone else in our community who made the 2024 Community Big Give a huge success.  Read More
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Captivated
by Stephanie French on August 16th, 2024
This September, we are kicking off our 2024-2025 ministry year with the theme: Captivated—Cultivating an Intimate Relationship with God! What captivates us attracts and holds our attention. To be captivated by God is to be drawn into knowing God—not only with an intellectual understanding of his attributes, but with a coming alive to God through surrender to Jesus’ love, knowing in an experiential...  Read More
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Practicing The Way
by Stephanie French on August 16th, 2024
Dallas Willard wrote in his book, The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship, “The greatest issue facing the world today … is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into eve...  Read More
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Kids Connect Year 2
by Stephanie French on August 7th, 2024
Kids Connect On Thursday mornings at Starbucks in winter of 2022-23, a few Open Life moms connected over coffee and conversation about a broad range of topics from parenting and marriage to sabbath and prayer. It was one moment during a hectic week where they could relax with a cup of coffee and a few friends and be reminded of how it feels to be one’s self before resuming the demanding rhythm of ...  Read More
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Missions Is Hard
by Stephanie French on August 7th, 2024
I still remember loading the van to head to the airport for my first international mission trip to Ukraine over 24 years ago. The anticipation and excitement mixed with apprehension and fear of the unknown were palpable among the entire team of 20 moms and dads, pastors and youth. Reading from my journal I remember the prayer that began with that trip and echoes still in my heart every time I step...  Read More
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Open Life Missions
by Stephanie French on July 26th, 2024
At Open Life we believe that every follower of Jesus should “go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone.” (Mark 16:15, NIV) In Acts 1:8, Jesus instructs his disciples, and consequently you and me, to testify as his witnesses to the good news that there is peace with God through him (Acts 10:36). We are to carry this testimony to our Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of ...  Read More
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