Lenten Study

Blessing to you all,

Sunday (day light savings time – turn your clocks ahead) we will read Genesis 17:1-17, 15-16 and Mark 8:31-38.  Abram and Sarai are renamed (and they had just gotten new checks from the River Bank) and Peter raises the ire of Jesus.  Tough imagines!  Just when we become comfortable with someone, thier appearance changes.  Or did we actually misunderstand what we thought we saw / heard / felt?  Anyway….

Two student (and some adult) mission trips are on the horizon.  Middle schoolers and a trip to Heifer Farm in August and a High Schoolers trip in October to hurricane relief in Texas.  More info to follow.  Talk to me if it sounds like something you would like to do.  Both trips are in conjunction with the Methodist Church in Ferrisburg and the UCC in Willistion.

DVD Living the Questions @ 11:30-12:30, Sunday – Taking the Bible Seriously.

Peace,

John

Blessings and Peace to you all,

This Sunday we are to turn our clocks forward (Spring Forward).

During this Sunday’s Service we will celebrate and dedicate the newly elected (in January) officers and board and committee members who will be serving this church for the upcoming year.  This will include a Laying on of Hands for the newly elected Deacons.

Our Living the Questions session for this Sunday (11:30-12:30) or Monday (7-8) will focus on “Taking the Bible Seriously.”  Quoting from the supplemental material available on line:

“How much authority do you give scripture?  How do you determine the level of trust you place in any written material, for that matter?  As perhaps the best selling, least read book of all time, the Bible needs to be reexamined by most of us.  It is not something to be believed in, as though it has some magical powers, but to be in relationship with, as one would be with any person or cause or issue to which we give allegiance in this life.”

This week’s discussion should be very interesting as many of the differences we see and face concerning faith issues will relate in some way to the authority of scripture.

This should be an interesting discussion.

In Faith,

Gary