Gathering at the Table
As we gather at the Lord's Table on the first Sunday of each month let us bring a donation for our food basket to help a family in need set their table.
When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap the the very edges of your field, or gather the gleanigs of your harvest.
Reflections of the Pastor
I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God;
incline your ear to me, hear my words. Psalm 17:6
We call upon God with the confidence
that God hears our supplications. We call upon God with the confidence that God
loves us and knows what is best for us. Can we truly trust that our loving God
is ever mindful of our needs and our desires? Can we acknowledge that sometimes
our desires may not be God’s desires for us? Can we truly pray as Jesus did in
the garden, saying, “Nevertheless not my will, but your will be done?”
God’s answers to our prayers may not
come in the form that we are seeking. When we pray for healing for ourselves or
others we are often seeking a cure. God’s healing may come in the form of the grace to bear the burden of
our infirmities.
God invites us to a life of prayer,
not so that we can have our needs and wants met, but that we might be drawn
into a closer relationship with the Holy One. The Biblical purpose of prayer is that we might get to know God in a
more intimate and personal way.
We identify ourselves as a praying
people. We make a commitment to pray for one another. We share our prayer concerns. Let us be in
prayer that each of us may grow in the grace to become all that God has created
us to be. In this manner we can nurture
one another along our faith journey.
Joyously serving with you,
Pastor Joyce
Purpose Statement
Adopted October 1997
Guided through prayer and the power of the Holy Spirit, we join together to worship and praise God, to nurture one another in our faith journey with Christ, and to carry out the Biblical teachings of Christ within our church family, community, and world.
