GOD IN EVERYDAY LIFE: 2026
This summer we will spend Sunday mornings exploring the good gifts that God has given us. We invite different people from our congregation to come share with us how they see God in their everyday life. Each week they bring their job or hobby to us and we learned about how God meets us in everything. Scroll to find out how we are discovering God in Everyday Life.
Beading with Gems
Norma shared with us her love of making creations with beads. She wanted us to know that just like we put individual beads on a creation and don't know what the full picture will be, so it is with our life. The good things and the hard things each represented by a bead. And while we might not know the full picture we can trust that God is making something beautiful with our life. We then created gem suncatchers to take home to help us remember!
Interior Design
We welcome Alaythia Godshall in, award winning and current Interior Design Student at George Fox University, to share with us her love of Interior Design. She taught us about the techniques and gave us our own kits to take home. We talked about God being a designer in his good world that he made, creating a safe and beautiful place for us to live. We can do the same thing when we create and design places of beauty and inclusion for ourselves and those around us.
Mini donkey care
Thank you Joy and Paul for sharing your donkeys, Winnie & Fiona, with us! It was an amazing morning at the barn learning about what it means to care for God's creation and learning the legend of the donkey. We talked about why Jesus might have rode into Jerusalem on a donkey versus a big horse, and talked about some of the qualities of donkeys that are a lot like Jesus (humble, hard working, protective). Our kids got to pet and brush the donkeys and play with some of their toys
kandi creations
We welcomed two of our very own, Olivia and Aria. They talked to us about their hobby of Kandi (pony beads for those of us of another generation). They shared with us how Kandi started and the special handshake that you do when trading a bracelet (peace, love, unity and respect). We talked about how they have used Kandi to love others and be cared for by others and how those ideas are ways we can live in Jesus' kingdom. They then taught the kids how to make lizards, bracelets and stars with the Kandi. It was a great morning and a huge thank you to Olivia and Aria for sharing with us!
time
We welcomed in Evan to talk to us about time! It was such a wonderful morning exploring the different ways people have kept time over the centuries, us trying to keep time on our own, and learning how time is kept today. Evan talked about how God is above time, is fair and just, and we talked about how when God revealed his name he said, "I am." The one who is always past, present, and future.
Weaving
One of our own Redeemer Kids - Autumn - brought us her hobby of weaving! She shows us the different ways to weave, and the different projects she had completed. She prepared weaving board for all of us and we all got to work on weaving something of our own. She talked about how God is like a weaver, using the things in our life to make a beautiful tapestry. She also talked about how God is a God of beauty and when we create beautiful things we are reflecting Him.
COding
Our own Redeemer Kid - Liam- brought us his hobby of coding for God in Everyday Life! We got the chance to create our own design and code for it, then traded instructions to see if we could draw each other's designs. Liam talked about how God was the original coder in making us and the world. He talked about how when we follow God's commands (like following a code instruction) we live our best life. Thank you, Liam, for sharing!
baby chicks
Joanne brought in her chicken and 4 babies. We took turns getting to hold the mama and babies, as well as rotated to stations where we had relay races to build 'nests' and made a craft to help remind us of how we can care for God's creation. Joanne brought this verse to us, “The righteous care for the needs of their animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.” Teaching us that caring for creation - especially animals - is a mark of righteousness and kindness, and such care is worthy of blessing.
