Offertory Prayer

Invitation to the Offering
The offering you made last week empowered ministry within our congregation and in response to the needs of our community. It also helped support the work of ministries beyond the local church that reach people who are in desperate need to hear the good news of love and redemption. Ministries that bring medical care to the poor and elderly in our own communities, following in the footsteps of Christ who sought to heal and give hope. I invite you once again to give generously as we worship God through the sharing of our gifts, tithes and offerings.
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June 23, 2013 — Fifth Sunday After Pentecost

God of the universe and God of our hearts, speak to us this morning in our giving with your still, small voice. Remind us who we are; remind us whose we are; remind us why we have chosen to follow your Son Jesus the Christ. As we share in this offering today, remind us that when we feel as if we are the last ones left who have not turned from you, that we are not alone. What we do, and what we give is multiplied with the compassion of others. Keep us faithful in that knowledge. We pray this in the name that is above all others, Jesus the Christ. Amen. (1 Kings 19:1-15a)

Written by Ken Sloan, Director of Stewardship for GBOD. http://www.gbod.org/lead-your-church/offertory-prayers

Monday, October 29, 2012

At Home with God, a Reflection on Revelation 21:1-6a

We gather on All Saints Day to remember the people in our lives who have died. We can find these words from Revelation to be comforting, reassuring. God is among them. God will dwell with them. They are God's people. What we have known as good about God will continue past this life.

But, there will be changes. In their home in the holy city no longer will there be tears, no more death, no more mourning or crying or pain. All things will be made new.

We see glimpses of this New Jerusalem in our lives now. God has declared, "It is done! I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end." 
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