...How God has blessed us.
At the Southwest Conference Annual Meeting this weekend each congregation was asked to present a brief statement about the ways God has blessed them in the past year. Here is the statement I presented on behalf of the Encanto Community Church:
At the Encanto Community Church God has blessed us with the strength and perseverance to not only wade into the Interim Process, but to dive headlong in and swim around in the renewing and transforming waters. We are busily about the Five Interim Tasks as we learn more about ourselves and discern the path that will lead us to the bright and vibrant future that God is preparing for us.
We have much that is new and exciting happening at our congregation; some as new as the latest technology like our beautiful new website and pastoral blog, others as old and deeply rooted as our faith itself like our Tuesday Noon Prayer Group that meets to pray for our church, our community, and our world. We marched in the Phoenix Pride Parade with our brothers and sisters from the UCC for the very first time, and it won’t be the last. We have seen tremendous congregational participation in our Work Days, our affirmative answers to our Nominating Committee, during January 2009 which we designated as “Church History Month” and in the exciting work of reclaiming our Education Wing and Stage.
This Easter season we are celebrating God’s gifts of life and love and witnessing to the power of new life that is all around us. Indeed we are thankful that resurrection is possible even for you, even for me, and especially for all the ways we are seeing it at the Encanto Community Church.
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