Katy Matejka Kroondyk

Katy Matejka Kroondyk is a student at Western Theological Seminary and the Fitness Coordinator at Zeeland Recreation. She lives with her husband, Rev. Jeff Kroondyk, and their daughters, LillyAnn and Eliza, in Holland, MI.

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  • If you haven’t recently taken the time to inspect the elements and tools that you use for communion, consider this an invitation to go back to these mundane items which take up significant meaning when we use them in communion. What meanings are you communicating in your choices?

  • The Book of Exodus tells the incredible story of God's work to deliver the Israelites from bondage and to shape them into his people, a people through whom he would bless the world. It testifies to the work that God does for his people and in turn, God's good plan for our work. These three liturgies can be adapted for any Sunday but also correspond with the Revised Common Lectionary, Year A, the 15th, 16th, and 17th Sundays after Pentecost.

  • The Book of Exodus tells the incredible story of God's work to deliver the Israelites from bondage and to shape them into his people, a people through whom he would bless the world. It testifies to the work that God does for his people and in turn, God's good plan for our work. Each post of this 5 week series looks at familiar stories with an emphasis on praising God for what he has done! This week’s liturgy is prepared for the 14th Sunday After Pentecost.

  • The Book of Exodus tells the incredible story of God's work to deliver the Israelites from bondage and to shape them into his people, a people through whom he would bless the world. It testifies to the work that God does for his people and in turn, God's good plan for our work. Each post of this 5 week series looks at familiar stories with an emphasis on praising God for what he has done!

  • A call to worship, litany of confession, and song suggestions for a worship based on Matthew 15:21-28, Jesus and the Canaanite Woman, which is the Revised Common Lectionary’s gospel reading for the 12th Sunday after Pentecost.

  • A call to worship, liturgy of confession, and song suggestions for a worship based on Matthew 14:13-21, the feeding of the five thousand, which is the Revised Common Lectionary’s gospel reading for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost.

  • A call to worship, liturgy of confession, and song suggestions for a worship based on Matthew 14:13-21, the feeding of the five thousand, which is the Revised Common Lectionary’s gospel reading for the 10th Sunday after Pentecost.

  • In my margin notes I wrote, “How comforting to hear an incarnation every week.” And comfort it was until all of the sudden it was my responsibility to be the preacher picking out the human words to clothe the word of God.