Last Sunday was the first in a new worship series called “Risky Business” and thanks to
our amazing guest musician, Ken Medema, the Cathedral Choir, and God’s House
Band, the risks were few and the benefits were abundant!! Ken also performed at a
concert that afternoon, continuing the theme of risks and benefits (ask Michael Herzog,
Steve Cairns, Elizabeth Robertson, and Ruth Jenkins-McIntire about having risky songs
created for them). Click here to watch worship.
You might have noticed on the front of the worship program (bulletin) the direction The
United Methodist Church is headed: “Following Jesus. Thriving in Community. Healing
the World.” If you ask me that’s pretty risky behavior, if it’s what we’re going to do and to
expect of each other.
I’ve been appointed to serve for another year as your pastor, and my word in this new
year is “community”. As I write this, men are drilling in places on our campus, looking for
soil structure for building workforce housing. Our community is going to grow and
change ~ and that’ll require some risk-taking. The Transformation Team has kept our
congregation informed about this process every step of the way, and now we’re asked
to step out in faith with them, trusting that God is guiding us. This is a time for prayer
(always a risky business!) and I ask you to hold in your prayers our present and future
community ~ that we’re in the process of building and revealing God’s kin-dom here on
earth as it is in heaven.
In faith, Marylee