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World Communion

10/1/2020

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  Do you enjoy the feeling when you are at a football game cheering with thousands of other fans?  Are you touched by the time when you are holding a candle with many others celebrating a special moment?  That is the power of unity.  Sometimes we fail to fully appreciate that power, especially when it comes to faith.  This Sunday is World Communion Sunday – a time when believers from all over the world, every nation, every race, every place will take Holy Communion as a gesture of our common spiritual bond in Christ as believers and as a family of faith.  Many of us are torn by the many signs of division and strife in our nation and in our world.  But there is hope.  I hope you will join us for World Communion as a time to come around the Lord’s Table and connect with God and reconnect with others as we grow personally and spiritually renewed in Christ’s love and the power of God’s promises.  I also hope you will make this a time of prayer for our community, our country and our world.  Listen to these words that Jesus prayed to the Father in the Garden of Gethsemane before going to the cross:
 
(verse of the week)
All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them.   I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name—the name you gave me—so that they may be one as we are one (John 17.10,11).
 
(Prayer of the Week)
Gracious and Loving God, open my heart to your Family of Faith around the world.  May I see your face in others as part your great united church and may I extend your grace to others in every place.  Amen
 
Open your heart to God’s awesome love!
--Pastor TJ
 
(quote of the week)
Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless ---Bertrand Russell
 
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