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Living Beyond Myself: Celebration of Missions Sunday

“For the Lord your God …is not partial and takes no bribe, who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing. You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” Deuteronomy 10:17-19

“With what shall I come before the Lord?... He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.” Micah 6:6-8

“But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers… Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
James 1:22, 27

Between services we’ll be celebrating the service of this community.
For those attending the 9:00am service please come prepared to hang around after, and for those attending the 11:00am service please plan to come early.

Woodie White is a bishop in the Church. He was sitting at home when the phone rang. It was his sister.
“Woodie! she screamed hysterically. “You better come quick! Something has happened to mother!” Woodie White ran out of the house, jumped in his car, and started on the long drive to his mother’s house.
“What possibly could have happened?” he wondered. He tried to prepare himself—but nothing could have prepared him for what he found.
His mother—seventy-three years old—had been violently attacked by a robber. Her face was bruised and bloody. Her eyes were swollen shut. Bishop White stood there in a state of shock. Then he threw his arms around her, and began to cry. And then something strange and special happened. As he was holding his mother, he sensed a familiar aroma.
“Mother,” he said, “what is that I’m smelling?”
And she answered, “It’s fried chicken, son. I thought you might be hungry after your long drive.”
And then she looked up at him, her face aglow. “Son,” she said, “I want to tell you something and I don’t want you to ever forget it. God is still good! God is still good!”
What a week it’s been in the financial markets. In so many ways the Bible addresses the issues surrounding the economy. It speaks to greed and fear, uncertainty and hope. It speaks about debt and credit and the importance of trust. It has story after story of people losing everything, and God’s word of hope to them in the midst of loss.” So many of us are feeling uncertainty these days. And for good reason. That is why we need to hear these words of hope: “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you. When you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you…For I am the LORD, your God.” Isaiah 43:2-3
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11
AMEN.
May the faith and confidence that was in Woodie White’s mother be in you.

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