September 16, 2007
Pentecost XVI

Land & People

At the 8: 30 and 10: 30 services at the Parish Center this Sunday morning we will gather for worship using a liturgy that was developed some time ago that is named "The Land And Her People". This liturgy reflects our understanding that God provides to us, that every thing that surrounds us comes from God, the Creator. We gather, acknowledging that all we are and all we have comes from God, belongs to God, is loved by God, can be given and offered and spent for God. We offer our time, our talents, our money, and the product of our hands and our minds in God's service here in this place, out in the neighborhood, and in the world. We acknowledge our diversity and in the midst of this diversity we can see and experience the great love of God in the richness of the individual as we come together in community. Our ministries are varied, but each one is valuable, each one is important to God, because even just one enables us to continue God's work of seeking and finding and celebrating.

This celebration is an important celebration; one that needs to happen every day of our lives, to acknowledge God's hand at work in the world around us. I would like to invite us to hear this message of God to each of us, to understand that God seeks us out, searches for us, that we are loved and that we should rejoice every day for that embracing that we receive from God.

Silito

Take a look at some of the previous messages from the Rector