For everything there is a season

Change. It can be daunting and transformational. Certainly it is not easy.
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Change keeps on changing

by Angela T. Khabeb

I’m surrounded by change. I look outside my window and notice the familiar sight of leaves changing colors. Daylight is fleeting as night arrives earlier and stays longer. It’s almost as if autumn is Mother Nature’s ambassador for change. READ MORE ›

For everything there is a season

by Joy McDonald Coltvet
Change. Change. Change. It can be daunting and transformational. Certainly it is not easy. READ MORE ›

Cafe group October: Change

Young women are sharing community, maybe dinner and discussing the faith-based topics that appear in every issue of Café. Each issue of Café features two articles with discussion questions and a closing prayer. You can download and print out the October 2017 issue, or follow along from the website if you have an Internet connection.READ MORE ›

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Café is a magazine for and with young adult women who want to build their faith.

Café incorporates a Lutheran perspective for young, adult women of Christian faith or simply for any woman who is interested in how faith relates to the issues that women face today. Readers and writers of Café include pastors, seminary and college students, and other young adult women who use Café as a Bible study resource individually or with their congregation.

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