Whiteboard: Connection

Our Lenten Sermon Series on what "We Need" continues this week with a focus on Connection.

And what better thing to illustrate Connection then the amazing work of Global Ministries.

Global Ministries is our denomination's Missionary branch, but it isn't just for our denomination. In a one-of-a-kind relationship, Global Ministries is actually the joint Missionary branch of the Disciples of Christ and our sister denomination the United Church Church. Global Ministries empowers the work of the church "from our doorsteps to the ends of the Earth." We have missionaries who are working in partnership with communities of faith and communities in need all over the world.

AND, they have a terrific website that really illustrates all of the incredible things that they do. Head to www.GlobalMinistries.org to learn more!

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John 12:1-8 -- Mary Anoints Jesus

Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him.Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was about to betray him), said, ‘Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?’ (He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it.) 

Jesus said, ‘Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.’