I hope you're having a great (rainy) week! It's starting to look and smell like
Christmas around my house, and that's certainly the season at Church of the Way.
This Sunday, I hope you'll get into the spirit as we continue to talk about
getting from Christmas what we really need in the series "White
Elephant." This week, we'll be talking about 'Good
News.' I'm looking forward to sharing that news with
you!
Thought for the Week
"For I was hungry and
you gave Me something to eat...I was a stranger and you took Me in." Matthew
25:35
This time of year I get a lot of calls about whether or not
we're sponsoring families. Sometimes LIFE Groups are able to help. Simply,
there are lots of people in need in our community, and the holidays bring that
to light. This coming Sunday we start another week of hosting homeless families
through Family Promise of Gwinnett. We'll be sharing in hosting them with our
sister church, New Hope UMC. It's a big job. There are lots of things that
have to be done and lots of volunteer spaces that must be filled. But it's a
week...to help families...who don't have a home. It's children who sleep in
Sunday School rooms every night. It's moms that don't have a stove to cook
their kids a meal on. It's families that don't have a Christmas tree because
they don't have a corner to put one. And all God needs from me is to cook a
meal, share some fellowship, set-up some beds, or sleep overnight? And when I
do that, I'm not just ministering to people, but Jesus said I'm ministering to
Him? That sounds like a no-brainer. There is no relationship with God that
isolates us from community. Relationship with God means a relationship with
others, for we are all made in God's image. So, when we serve others, we serve
God. When we love others, we love God. When we feed others, we feed God. When
we welcome others, we welcome God. There are lots of ways to serve others this
Christmas season, and Family Promise is a simple and profound way to do that.
Let's be a people who take seriously our relationship with God by serving the
ones made in His image. You can find out what opportunities there are to serve
in Family Promise by contacting Jim Ramsdail or Kim Navarro.
In Christ,
Carter
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