Sounded pretty crazy didn’t it! Leave your boats, leave what’s familiar, go off in a new direction, follow Jesus? Since the first disciples, that has been the story of God’s people. Following Jesus often means going to places where we’re not as comfortable, where we are learning, growing, stretching. We talked a little about that at our Men’s breakfast this morning. A number of us remembered how racist some of our forefathers were, and how, thankfully, we have made some good progress in moving away from that (although there’s still a good ways to go around). But we learn, we grow. In following Jesus, our hearts and minds are opened to seeing each other, and especially others different from us, in new ways. Such is what the season of Epiphany is about…revealing, making manifest, letting God’s Light shine into the darkness, into our darkness. What a crazy journey this is. We just need to hang on for the ride, to each other and to Jesus.
As members together on this journey, here are a few things coming up:
This coming Sunday, Jan. 29, our Annual Congregational meeting will be held at 9:45am in the sanctuary. We’ll have our 2012 budget to vote on, a report on our director of music/organist position, and more. Please join us.
Looking ahead, the Spring Youth Retreat will be coming up the weekend of March 30-April 1. This will be for all Youth in grades 6-12. See Jimmy Smith, our Youth Director for more information.
New Team on board! With the addition of our new narthex, “Quiet Room”, lobby and more, comes ideas about how to furnish and decorate these and other spaces on our campus. For that reason we have formed an “Architectural Review Team”. If you have any ideas, suggestions, recommendations for our new space or anything else related to our facilities, please pass them along to this group via this email, or through a phone call to the office, a note in the offering plate, or whatever other way you’d like to share your ideas. Thanks!
Finally, from our parish health ministry team, blood pressures will be taken this coming weekend before the 8:30 service and after the 6pm and 11am services in our new Quiet Room off of the narthex. (An adult Sunday School class normally meets there between the services, so that room isn’t available after the 8:30 service). Also, a bottle of nitro pills was turned in yesterday. If it’s yours, it’s here in the office.
For other information about the life and ministry of Our Savior, please visit our website at: www.oursaviorelca.com.
God’s work; our hands. See you in church! Pastor Jack Diehl +
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