[It's hard to believe but the photo above was taken exactly one year ago. It was our first worship service in Fellowship Hall due to the sanctuary renovations. We worshipped in this space for twenty-one Sundays which took us into February. Yesterday, it was in this same space that our children assembled 114 hurricane relief hygiene kits during our Sunday School hour. See photo below.]
Gracious and heavenly King,
thank you for forgiving us our trespasses as we have forgiven those who have
trespassed against us. Remind us that your grace is like currency and is meant
to be received and shared with others.
Thank you for the currency of
grace and love that flows through this church family in so many wonderful ways;
like through our children and youth Sunday School classes who assembled 100
hygiene kits to help with the Texas and Florida hurricane relief; like through
those who prepared and served a wonderful chicken and noodles meal at our
Monday Lunch outreach, like through our prayer team who prayed over several
prayer needs this past Tuesday morning, like through our dedicated Growing Tree
pre-school teachers who provide a safe and loving space for our children to
learn and grow, and like through those who blessed us with their inspiring testimonies
during last Sunday’s worship services on what it means to them to have a
loving, learning, and living faith.
Gracious King, thank you for
the positive energy and movement of your Holy Spirit that is flowing freely
through this place. Thank you for teaching us as a church that the more we
allow your love to flow through us, the more that we are able to see your
kingdom made evident here on earth, and right here in our Athens community.
May your freeing love that is
present in this place continue to flow freely beyond these church walls to the
homebound who are unable to be here in church today, to the people in the south
who have lost their homes and their belongings from the hurricanes, and to the
children in Honduras where Sophie Mather from our church is serving in mission
work this fall.
Whenever we see your cross,
may it remind us of the incredible debt you paid on our behalf by sending us Jesus
Christ. Thank you that 1 Cross + 3 Nails = 4 Given.
It is in his name that we
pray together saying, “Our Father, who art in heaven…”
[Hurricane relief hygiene supplies waiting to be put into bags by our Sunday School children yesterday in church. Following Sunday School, Martha Sloan invited the children to bless these 114 hygiene kits during worship. In addition to these kits, we also dedicated 75 school supply bags, and thanked God for the $3,800 that our church raised that will all be given toward hurricane relief efforts. Way to go, church!]
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