Roe v. Wade Pastoral Letter
Dear Mill City Church, Last week, after 50 years of legal standing, Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court, pushing abortion laws back to a s...
Our Beliefs
Our beliefs are summarized in The Apostles Creed. The Apostles Creed for us is the clearest, most unifying, and concise statement of historic Christi...
Advent
We adjust our lives around time. Clothing and schedules are different in the fall than the summer. We set goals and remember milestones with dates and...
Following the Way of Jesus in Honor and Unity
In light of the Larminer County mask order in the fall of 2021, Pastor Aaron opened the Sunday gathering with a pastoral word about following the way ...
Sisterhood Psalm 2021
Thank you for joining us for Sisterhood 2021. SisterhoodPsalmWorksheet Click this link to download or print our Psalm activity. During our eve...
Racial Justice
JUSTICE Resources to Understand Racism and Engage Justice We are Heartbroken To the people of color in our house and beyond, we see you and we love yo...
Kids Worship
Songs are sticky! Utilize this playlist if you are hanging out at home, driving in the car, or just wanting some extended worship time as a family on ...
Books for Families
Books for Families Books are an easy and powerful way to share Jesus with your children. Here are some of our favs ❤️ Books for Kids The Jesus Sto...
Your Generosity Is Saving Lives
Because of your generosity, Mill City is able to financially support the amazing work that Life For The Innocent (LFTI) is doing. To hear more about w...
I’m Just Not “Feeling It” in My Marriage
Once upon a time, you couldn’t stop making out with each other and struggled to keep it cool. Now, well, the struggle is you’ve settled into being...
Wifing, Momming, Working, Praying, + Sleeping…sometimes!
Ladies, and any gentlemen brave enough to read about wifing (not wifi, but rather the plural form of being a wife), boys and girls, I want to talk abo...
How to Lead Kids Well Through COVID Pt. 1
We recognize parents, this is such a difficult season to not only lead yourselves through, but your kids. The questions are endless and the shame can ...
How To Stay Married for Life
How do two people stay married for life? And how do we guard ourselves in sexual temptation, despite being attracted to other people? In this conversa...
Alpha – Lindsey’s Story
We’ve just finished our very first Alpha online and one of the joys of Alpha is seeing people’s story unfold. Alpha provides space for peo...
The Most Destructive Dynamic in a Marriage
Marriage is not what we pictured when we declared our vows before our friends and family. We don’t always know why, but we keep doing something that...
Letter to Mill City Church
Dear Mill City, Racism breaks my heart, and the heart of God. It is evil and real, today. This is an issue we have not adequately addressed or engag...
Understanding and Overcoming Addictions (feat. Dr. Doug Weiss)
When life gets unstable we often run to an old addiction or develop new addictions to avoid pain, find comfort, or feel in control. It can look like N...
What to do with questions about God, Faith and Meaning? (feat. Craig Springer)
One of the things that comes to the surface in times like this (a global pandemic) are questions we have around God and the meaning of life. This happ...
How Rhythms Ground us in Times of Chaos (feat. John Mark Comer)
Schedules and ways of going through our days and weeks get thrown off in seasons of disruption. Rhythms and structures provide a sense of stability, s...
Cultivating Inner Peace (feat. Rich Villodas)
Even when things are calm on the outside, we can be unsettled on the inside. It doesn’t have to be that way. We can actually be settled on the insid...
How to Navigate School at Home and Keep Your Sanity
Thank you Lord for our teachers! Teaching from home for the first time and don’t know what to do? We’re here for you – we know...
Emotional Health in Disorienting Times (feat. Chris Bruno)
In a season of upheaval and disorientation, we need to pay attention to our emotional responses. Our emotions don’t drive our lives but they do indi...
Weekly Updates
January 27 January 13 January 7 December 30 December 21 December 10 November 24 November 18 November 11 November 4 October 28 October 21 October 15 Oc...
Mill City Kids at Home
Church at home? What a great opportunity! Think comfy, convenient, and personal. Families, thank you for planning to gather with us online. We a...
Serving Opportunities
We don’t just have a vision for our church to flourish, we have a vision for our city to flourish. You can help out in the following ways (hygiene p...
Examen
Examen: Starting Point for Discernment The challenge: learning to live close to the heart of God and be attentive to your own spirit. Only then do we ...
Holy Week at Home
Traditions – especially those that children can see, hear, feel, smell and taste — provide vivid memories. This year, there is no better...
Broken
“I need to call my wife to say goodbye.” Have you ever been so hurt you thought you were going to die? I know it sounds pretty dramatic, but on ...
Work at Home – Idolatry
The ditch on the other side of the effort to raise up sons and daughters is that of idolatry. For part 1 of the conversation, check out this blog post...
Work At Home – Neglect
Have you ever fallen asleep at the wheel? As a freshly engaged college student reporting back for R.A. training, I found myself driving through Kansas...
Steller Questions
We believe families connect through rich conversation – but we also know it can be difficult to get rich conversation started. To help, hereR...
Re: Work
Work isn’t a paycheck, a job, or a title. It is so much bigger than that. Work is what God did to create the world and what He commissioned humans t...
Sabbatical Rest
As a way of embracing our value of practicing sustainable rhythms we provide a sabbatical for every employee after seven years of full-time employment...
Happy Mother’s Day!
Happy Mother’s Day, moms! We ❤️ you and honor your contributions to your family, our world, and to our house.
Opportunities to Serve
WE LOVE OUR CITY “If you are generous with the hungry and start giving yourselves to the down-and-out, your lives will begin to glow in the darkness...
Thank You and Personal Greeting from Pastor Dino Rizzo
Mill City Church planted as an ARC Church in the spring of 2012. The heart of ARC has always been to see a thriving church in every community reaching...
Sisterhood
Women of Mill City Church, In ‘The Velveteen Rabbit’ Margery Williams describes becoming “real” this way, ‘You become. I...
Four Common Traps to Lifelessness
Recently I have really realized my tendency to respond to man-made expectations, and not ask what God truly has for me. “The Glory of God is Man Fu...
Finding Inspiration
“Most people live in the ruins of their habits.” – Jean Cocteau Humanity is a unique animal. As the pinnacle of creation God gave us ...
Play More
When I was a teacher, I asked a fellow co-worker a simple question. As a young father, “How advice would you give me.? As a seasoned father who ...
It Begins with Me
“The [worst] thing that can ever happen to any of us is to have a path that’s made too smooth. One of the greatest blessings the Lord ever gave us...
Dealing with Patterns from the Past
If we are going to move forward and grow into mature followers of Jesus, we have to look back at the impact of our past on our present. Our family of ...
Close the Front Door
At the beginning of the semester the group leader stands at the proverbial front door and invites people to come in. City Group launches are designed ...
Clear Responses to Difficult Questions
Questions might come up in your group and you think: ‘I don’t know the answer…’ ’ I should know the answer!’ ‘What’s Mill City’s off...
25 Great Questions
Great questions help people feel invited, known, and interesting. These questions are open-ended, sincere, and curious. Poor questions can make people...
Make It Safe
Safety is a foundation of growth. As leaders, one of our first goals is to create environments where people feel (and are) safe. You know what it mean...
Make It Personal
Leaders – the most important thing we do is – pray. Then, leaders make it safe & personal. In many environments, it is easier for a di...
The Bible Is True
Every year as the calendar approaches Easter, the weeks leading up to the superbowl of Christian holy days are filled with images of, stories on, ques...
Lament
God is calling us out of hiding into a full and flourishing life; one where we travel freely and lightly. To get there, we must step out of the shadow...
Women in Ministry
Women in Ministry There are various responsible and respectable Biblical interpretations on the role of women in positions of ministry and leadership....
What’s Your Secret? // Resources
Bringing secret sins, thoughts, fears, struggles, and temptations out of the darkness into the light is a vital step toward being who God designed you...
My Story: Jacob McGowen
This post is from Jacob – a member of Mill City Church who was impacted by the “What’s Your Secret” series in the Spring of 20...
John + Marie Beck
For seven years, Marie prayed that Jesus would use her to lead her husband John to Him. John grew up outside of the church, with no faith to call his ...
Parenting with People
I truly believe God designed us for community, to be better because of each other.
Sing Loud
God has called us to bring ‘our all’ into worship and into our relationship with him.
Pursuit of Perfection
Jesus’ call today is the same as it was two millennia ago, “come and follow Me.”
Partnership
How can we most effectively lead children (from 1 day old to 18 years old) at Mill City Church to be wholehearted Jesus followers?
We don’t do Childcare
We want Mill City Kids to be a place where kids know that they belong and have a safe space to share their unique stories.
Serve Day 2017
We love our city all year round, but we joined churches around the world Saturday, July 15 to make a big difference together in our communities.
Happy Father’s Day 2017
We honor all men – those who father their own children as well as those who spiritually father and sow faithfully in our House and beyond. Tha...
Happy Mother’s Day
To those who gave birth this year to their first child—we celebrate with you. To those who lost a child this year—we mourn with you. To those who ...
Fifth Birthday: By The Numbers
We like numbers at Mill City…because every number has a name, every name has a story, and every story speaks to the redeeming power of God.
Happy Birthday!
We are so grateful for the layers of support from so many people, near and far, who have been a part of the Mill City journey. Thank you for believing...
Water Baptism
Water baptism has been practiced throughout the history of the church starting in the book of Acts (Acts 2:41; 8:12; 8:38; 10:47-48 to name a few)...
Seven Deadly Sins: Seeds
The seven deadly sins are pride, lust, gluttony, wrath, envy, greed, and sloth. We often conjure them up in our minds in their extreme forms and thus ...
Tamara Park
As followers of Jesus, we celebrate resurrection, not only at Easter but every day. Because Jesus overcame the grave we recognize that new life breaks...
We Worship Together
As the family of God, and at Mill City Church in particular, we gather to worship each Sunday morning for many reasons. God is at work in our lives th...
Serve Day 2013
In a desire to have our faith look like taking care of the least and the last, Mill City “adopted” Lincoln Middle School. Lincoln has been...
The Holy Who? Gifts of the Spirit
This is not a comprehensive list of the gifts of the Spirit. The following gifts and definitions come from the following passages of Scripture. Th...
The Bible: Approach is Paramount
I recently read through The Jesus Storybook Bible with my four boys and loved it! Not only do I deem it required reading for parents with small chil...
What Is Community?
There are many words in our language that are very important but often because of their importance they get overused and actually begin to lose meanin...
Sunday FAQs – Spring 2021
We're launching two locations on Sunday, February 28 🎉
How To Lead Your House Gathering Like a Boss
House Gatherings are new, so we created some simple tips to help you host your House Gathering. Looking for something specific? No problem, just jump ...