It Takes a Village

Leigh is back at work and Laila’s out of school until the middle of July, so I’ve had Jude with me in the church office these past two weeks. Which would make it a bit hard to get work done, if I didn’t have so much help! Jude’s learned how to play Hand and Foot, taken naps on a half dozen different people, borrowed baby bottles when Dada forgot ours (won’t make that mistake again), and taken quite a few tours of the church.

“It takes a village,” as the old saying goes. We can’t get by alone. We need each other. Of course, a church village doesn’t exist to help a single person - or even just to serve its own members. God calls the church to be the Body of Christ, given to the world to share God’s love. In other words: the church is called to be “the village” for the whole world.

Which is a big job! But again: we don’t do it alone, as one isolated group or congregation. We have true freedom in Christ, but we are never completely independent. Rather, we are deeply interdependent. We collaborate - across our Region, in camps and gatherings, mission trips and support of new congregations; across our general church, through mission funding and assemblies; ecumenically with other denominations and building interfaith friendships with our neighbors.

I took special notice, reading over this month’s newsletter, of all the evidence of our big village: all the ways we serve and all the ways we collaborate to be part of God’s dream of healing and wholeness in the world. Amen to that!

Grace + Peace,

David

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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