This is the final week of our official stewardship campaign, collecting pledges for 2023. We have been so blessed by the generosity of this church and we pray a prayer of gratitude in this service.
This week, the theme in these movements of God’s people comes to the final movement of MISSION. We have experienced the grief and struggle of EXILE times; the joy and expectations and sometimes disappointments of RETURN, and now we are sent back out into the world as God’s hands and feet for MISSION. God does not wait until we have it all together or until we feel ready. Our God is a God on the move; and we are, as our Presbyterian saying goes “the Church Reformed and always Reforming“! God gives us a mission and a purpose and good work to do right now; right where we are, just as we are. This may be scary, but it is also a crucial part of our future with hope. This is why the Church exists! Thanks be to God!