This Advent season I am going around different church groups to find out what our church does best. Here are today’s responses:
| When we are sharing a meal together or working together. | Family Ministry reaching out to our shut-ins and those in need! | Having each other’s back by helping when needed without having to ask. |
| Showing up for families in crisis. Showing love and concerns for all offering prayers. | To see before church the people conversing, laughing and coming together. | covered dish meals |
| it responds to unexpected challenges | when reaching out to serve the needs of others unselfishly, caring for others, being the hands and feet of Christ | Each member brings their best gifts / talents to share. Everyone has a time to give of themselves and even if it is a moment of prayer it is best! |
Please note: None of these have anything to do with worship! The one hour of music and proclamation is not even mentioned. That’s not where church happens when it’s most meaningful. Here with St. John’s UCC, church is not a place or event you go to, but a movement that makes people’s lives better. St. John’s is the voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 5Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth; 6and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’