But when you’ve got a good thing going, then why not try to replicate your success by tracing the same line that worked so well before!
Last week in this space I shared the poem from Mary Oliver that we used at the opening worship service for the Elders Retreat. The Elders Retreat was a fantastic event! We are truly blessed to have such wonderful, caring, committed servant leaders in this church. We came away from the Elders Retreat excited, unified, and organized for a terrific year.
This weekend, we have the Administrative Council Retreat, and I am hoping for similarly powerful results. And so, for the second week in a row I’m using this space to include a piece of the opening worship from a forthcoming leadership retreat. Instead of sharing a poem with you, I thought I would include a piece of the prayer that we will using during our opening devotional time with the Administrative Council.
Oh God of the Universe, unite our hearts to You alone,
and do it strongly, so that with the gift of Your grace we
may be one in You and may in nothing depart from the
truth. Thus, united in Your name, may we in our every
action follow the dictates of Your mercy and justice, so
that today and always our judgments may not be alien to
You and in eternity we may obtain the unending reward
of our actions. Amen.
Just like last week, I am asking you to carve out a little time in your own morning devotions on Saturday so that you can pray for our Administrative Council. You can use the words that I have shared with you here or you can use your own words, but please pray for our leaders, pray for our church, and pray that we might together discern the powerful places where God is calling us to live in mission and ministry.
Yours in the journey, Rev. Brian
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