Week of Compassion kicks off this coming Sunday, and we are fortunate to have the Rev. Brandon Gilvin (Associate Director of Week of Compassion) coming as our guest preacher!
Week of Compassion is the relief, refugee and development mission fund of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada. Week of Compassion seeks to equip and empower disciples to alleviate the suffering of others through disaster response, humanitarian aid, sustainable development and the promotion of mission opportunities.
Week of Compassion overlaps two Sundays, so for the next two weeks this is what you'll see on my Whiteboard:
Anyway, enough about the Whiteboard. Lets get on to our guest preacher!
Brandon Gilvin is a graduate of Hiram College and Vanderbilt Divinity School. While a student at Vanderbilt, Brandon interned at the Quaker Peace Centre in Cape Town, South Africa as a Peace Educator, an experience that helped him develop his sense of vocation. Following graduation, Brandon served as a Pastoral Resident at Central Christian Church in Lexington, Kentucky. In 2004, he returned to Africa through Global Ministries, serving the All Africa Conference of Churches in Nairobi, Kenya, as the Program Executive for Communication. He then served a year as the North American Regional Secretary of the World Student Christian Foundation in Toronto, Ontario, where he worked with students interested in faith-based social activism. Just before coming to Week of Compassion Brandon served for two years as the Associate Pastor at Saint Andrew Christian Church in Olathe, KS, where he focused on adult education, social justice programming, and mission. Brandon is also the author of Solving the Da Vinci Code Mystery, co-author of Wisdom from The Five People You Meet in Heaven, and is co-editor, with Christian Piatt, of the WTF? (Where’s the Faith?) series, which is available from Chalice Press.
Oh yeah....and he was a groomsman at my wedding!
Brandon and I go way back, and it is a true pleasure to welcome him to First Christian Church Scottsdale and a real honor to have him on the first Sunday of Week of Compassion.
I'll see you this Sunday!
Rev. Brian
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Brandon will be preaching from Lamentations 3:21-26.
But this I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
‘The Lord is my portion,’ says my soul,
‘therefore I will hope in him.’
The Lord is good to those who wait for him,
to the soul that seeks him.
It is good that one should wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.
and therefore I have hope:
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
‘The Lord is my portion,’ says my soul,
‘therefore I will hope in him.’
The Lord is good to those who wait for him,
to the soul that seeks him.
It is good that one should wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.
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