Rev. Steve Pichaske

Dani Genandt

Office 309/243-7300

Pat Campbell

309/253-3979

 

Kirsten Ryan

309/361-5200

There’s a Beautiful God in the Neighborhood
As an ordained minister, Mister Rogers famously considered his work in television to be a ministry. He called the space between the TV set and the viewer “holy ground.” Perhaps you grew up watching Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. The red sweater, Daniel Tiger, and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe remind you of childhood. Perhaps his episodes were the only times you ever heard someone say, “There’s no person in the whole world like you. I like you just the way you are.”
Fred Rogers did not invent the concepts of love, forgiveness, acceptance and kindness. On the contrary, these were merely the lessons God had offered him the moment “Jesus moved into the neighborhood of Fred’s heart.”