News from Dave Fraser, our Church and Outreach Worker
This is a prayer used across the North Western Synod:
"Lord, today, is there someone You want me to connect with outside the church family?"
In the New Year I am inviting you to say this prayer with me every day in January and then perhaps meet up once a week by Zoom to see what has happened in our lives and in the life of the church.
15 very simple words that are the underpinning to the new initiative we start in the New Year.
From 13th January, we will fling wide our church doors on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12noon to 4pm for the new Art, Faith and Wellbeing Hub. Please do pick up a brochure (available in church or online here) that explains all the activities - maybe pick up two and share with a friend. Invite them to art classes, yoga classes, lunch, mindfulness sessions. People can pop in for 4 minutes or 4 hours.
This bold new initiative is an opportunity.
Our hub is an opportunity to not only invite people in but to deepen our relationship with them. Our hub is an opportunity to support members of the community as they deepen their spirituality and explore what's important to them.
Our hub will only be an opportunity if it is rooted and grounded in prayer.
I could ask you to invite a neighbour, I could ask you to volunteer, but what I really need to invite you to do is pray. Could you find the time and energy to pray 15 words every day in January?
"Lord, today, is there someone You want me to connect with
outside the church family?"
Do let me know if you are planning to make this a resolution for the New Year so that we can offer each other support and encouragement in the month of January. Our Art, Faith and Wellbeing Hub is a good initiative supported by the elders and church meeting, but I am convinced that it is our praying that will make the biggest difference.
Dave