Older Adult Ministries

Dr. Gentzler presents a session at Energizing Elderhood at Des Moines UMC in 2010. For more photos, click here. Gentzler retiring as Center on Aging...

Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Learn more about this image, here. Nurturing Elders: Walls Hide Our Real Identities By the Rev. Paul Graves “We learned that to...

By Rev. Paul Graves For his regular column in the Spokesman-Review, Rev. Paul Graves will occasionally use the format of a letter to his grandchildren....

Nurturing Elders and Others: When Jesus is the Question!? By The Rev. Paul Graves | Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons In a recent interview on National Public...

By the Rev. Paul Graves Do you remember the lead-up to Christmas when you were a child? If you now have children, or grandchildren, or...

By the Rev. Paul Graves As I sat in one of the presentations about Boomers at Boomerstock, this famous refrain came to my mind: “Freedom’s...

During a meal at Annual Conference in Pasco, Sue and I sat down at a table where a 20’s-something young lady was sitting next...

"I don’t want to hate anybody, especially the political leaders I vehemently disagree with," writes the Rev. Paul Graves. Reflecting on a cultural climate "where it's hard not to hate," Graves suggests that our faith offers us a better path than hate or despair if we risk opening our hearts to the world around us.

Nurturing Elders and Others: We see best through two different lenses of fear By the Rev. Paul Graves Terrorism. Star-studded night. “Fear Factor” and “Survivor” reality TV....

By the Rev. Paul Graves One of my favorite Biblical stories for decades has been The Prodigal Son parable. For a variety of reasons it...