You are invited to the Sunday Service on June 23 at 10 am. The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
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Ordinary Time
Sunday, June 23, 2024, 10 am
Choir Anthem: “Abiding Love”
Words & Music by Gloria Roe
“Abiding love to me the Saviour’s given. Abiding love for now and evermore;
this love is free because a life was given, Abiding love for He our hatred bore.
Abiding love, the greatest story ever, can fill each heart if opened to his call.
So love Him now. This love He’ll never sever, Abiding love from Him, Who’s over all.
Abiding love has ever been commanded than love from Him Who died to save His friends;
so now should we, because this love is granted, Abide in Him, on Him we can depend.”
Message “The Things We Carry” Haley Feuerbacher, Ph.D.
One of the powerful invitations of Juneteenth is to attend to what we’re carrying and what we’re passing on to our future generations. Each one of us is carrying stories, habits, and tendencies passed down to us by those who came before that were created out of trauma and pain – and we might not even realize that these are affecting our lives. In this message, we will be discovering how the stories of two enslaved persons four generations apart – a single mother named Hagar and a traumatized Hebrew man named Joseph – become transitional characters whose experiences of a God who sees their pain, hears their cries, and helps them dream a different reality help end a cycle of generational harm. These two resilient people, bound together across generations and differences, are our spiritual ancestors two, inviting us to consider that what we carry and what we pass on is crucial to how we participate in creating God’s kin-dom on earth as it is in heaven. Each of us is called to take brave, bold steps to become a transitional character in the story of our lineage – one who ends cycles of generational trauma and begins the cycles of generational healing.
“What’s past is prologue.”
~ a quotation of William Shakespeare from his play The Tempest
“Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.”
~ Morning Star
