Food brings us together. We sit around tables and talk and develop relationships...so vital to any community. I sat and watched various tables...some with Gen-X-ers and seniors, some with young couples and their children, others with single folks and their friends. Everyone seemed to be talking and laughing and enjoying their time together.
We're attempting to get small groups together too. Some will read books together and discuss them as they go about how that book can help us in our every-day lives. Another group will study a book of the Bible and have discussion and fellowship. There will be groups gathering too, to share their various gifts of quilting, painting, photography and anything else that may be of interest. A morning women's group will gather for study and a men's group also at various times. Not only that and regular Sunday school classes, there again will be Kids Klub, children from pre-school to grade six every Wednesday where we feed them supper, have a story time, play a few games and do a craft. There are also several visits to care homes in the city as well as taking part in serving soup to the hungry on various Saturdays. The seniors gather together too, to enjoy taking part in various special activities.
So, besides being on the worship team, chairing the Spiritual Care committee and being a member of the follow-up vitality committee to our Veritas weekend, I shall have my work cut out for me. I believe though this past weekend has given me a new sense of strength I haven't felt in a while. Perhaps it was my inability to move around much for these past several months and I lost a lot of energy just attempting to get my knee back to normal...if it ever will.
But on we will go, as a community of Christ followers, attempting to be Christ wherever we find ourselves. The Bible talks about when we are weak, then we are strong because we must depend on God for his strength, not our own to get any job done. The guest speaker for our Veritas Seminar, Gerald Froese, said that when we know for sure that we are unable to do something to help or change our community for the better, that is when God takes that something and gets that something done....with his strength, not our own. The Bible is full of people who told God they couldn't possibly do what He was asking of them...and that is exactly what God wanted to hear....that THEY couldn't do it, but with God's help, they could...and did!
Dependence. Desire.
Dependence on God with a desire follow him.
That's about my weekend in a nutshell.
Sleep well, my friends. There is work to be done tomorrow...:)
Just a couple of pictures showing us developing our relationships...by listening and encouraging.
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