by Shannon Popkin | Aug 20, 2013 | Church
A letter to my friend who is a young mom, and maybe to you:Dear Friend,I love the way your care for your young family. You have a flair and passion for meeting the needs of your little ones, and it’s obvious to me that they’d rather be on your lap than...
by Shannon Popkin | May 17, 2013 | Church, Food, Hospitality, Humility, Parenting, Serving
My friend recently told me about being part of the meals ministry at church.She would be tying polka dot ribbons around her tidy tinfoil packages of steaming hot, delicious food, and tucking her added gift of little kitchen towels strategically into the basket to keep...
by Shannon Popkin | Apr 2, 2013 | Church, Friendship, Holidays
When our kids and their friends came in from their Easter egg hunt last night, they announced that they had not only found all of this year’s eggs… They found one from last year, too! Apparently our cousins Alex and Andy are superior Easter egg hiders....
by Shannon Popkin | Nov 5, 2012 | Church, Wisdom
Four years ago, on the day of the presidential election, I walked out to my car after Bible study. There was a girl buckling her baby into the car beside me. I greeted her, then said, “I’m on my way to vote!”She sighed and said, “Me, too…...
by Shannon Popkin | Oct 26, 2012 | Church, Communication, Kids' Perspective, Serving
I talked last time about a piano student who caused me some frustration.Today I’ll talk about one who warms my teacherly heart. Lauren is much like I was at her age–very curious and enthusiastic and determined.She brought two songs she had written to her...
by Shannon Popkin | Aug 28, 2012 | Anxiety, Church, Faith, God, Hardship, Leadership, Serving, Women
Last year, we left our church. Not the Church, mind you. But still, it was our church. And while we felt the Lord leading us to do so (despite our strong convictions against ‘church-hopping’), it was still really hard to leave. And hard to begin somewhere else.One of...