Posted September 5, 2024 by Melinda Villaseñor in Music People…You!! I love having a community of friends who are all so different, and yet we all love music and singing. We sustain each other through prayers. You all have also sustained me through a pat on the back, a hug or by singing while I cried through a verse I couldn’t sing ..read more

Monday Over Coffee: "Anywhere & Everything" Posted September 9, 2024 by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee A couple of weekends ago, my wife Kelly and I took a quick end-of-the-summer trip to Las Vegas to see a show. It remains true that the city’s many sparkling hotels and bustling casinos wouldn’t be there without a host of ordinary folks losing a ton of money there at all hours of the day and night. Having said this, it should also be noted that for folks like us who aren’t gamblers, the range of ..read more

Posted August 26, 2024 by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee In New York a couple of weeks ago, our family attended a Tony Award winning play on Broadway called Stereophonic. The show is set entirely in a mid-70’s California recording studio where, over the period of a year, two studio engineers labor with an almost-famous band—lead guitarist, drummer, bass player, keyboardist, and singer—to complete their second, hopefully breakout album. As the four-act ..read more

Volunteer Spotlight on Wally Kronzer, Broadcast Ministry Posted August 29, 2024 by SMBC in Discipleship When and why did you begin volunteering with the Broadcast Ministry? I know it dates back to the 1990s, but I do not recall the exact year. I had been ushering for a number of years, but I was looking for a different way to participate in the services. I asked to help out with the broadcasts, and it all started with me on a floor camera ..read more

Posted September 2, 2024 by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee A little girl. Eight years old. Her school puts on a play. She’s given a featured role, the bright-eyed Athena, a Greek goddess. The production fires her imagination. The play is a tale of a far-away world, one full of magic and adventure involving a strange cast of compelling characters: marvelous men, magnificent women, incredible beasts, and an assortment of grand deities and curious demi-gods ..read more

Posted August 12, 2024 by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee What do you do when you’re facing an intractable problem? A real-life scenario over which you have little control? A situation that seems impossible to change? I don’t want to over-promise—not every problem has a solution—but rather offer a story that suggests a way to approach such a challenge ..read more

Posted August 19, 2024 by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee When I was in elementary school, I played football. I was small but pretty fast so the coaches put me at running back. My first few plays at the position went poorly, though, because I had a problem—I tended to get my right and left mixed up. The quarterback would call a play in the huddle—say, power left, second man through, on two. It meant on “Hut 2,” I’d receive the handoff from the QB ..read more

Posted July 24, 2024 by Alyssa Carter in Family Ministry During the week of June 17, 2024, 38 of our Kinder – 4th graders attended WDS camp. Each morning started in Little Church where we not only worshiped, we also learned the importance of worship. The kids learned about the liturgical calendar and the significance of Holy Week, Advent, Christ the King Sunday, and other important dates within the Church. During Little Church, we had different SMBC ..read more

Posted July 22, 2024 by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee While most overseas trips to the European continent involve touring a number of old and impressive churches, magnificent national galleries, and historic castles, dipping into a little pop culture of the countries you visit is a good idea. It was this notion that led our family to include the ABBA Museum on our agenda during our recent summer vacation in Stockholm ..read more

Monday Over Coffee: "Near Death Experience" Posted June 24, 2024 by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee One of Sebastian Junger’s first jobs involved cutting down enormous trees deep in the forest at great heights with a chainsaw. It was only the beginning of his daredevil ways. Junger soon became a journalist with a penchant for putting himself in life-threatening positions. He reported on genocide from war-torn Kosovo. He traveled to Nigeria to write about militants wreaking havoc on oil ..read more