Dear Friends,
It follows the rule —the experience of planting the small seed, the digging in at first, the watering, the fertilizing—waiting—watching—hoping—praying and then it begins to happen, little by little. That’s what it feels like this month. Kirkwood UCC has been growing—slowly, but steadily, little by little, day by day with much waiting—watching-hoping and praying.
May 18th marks our first move—- creating space for more. We will gather for worship in our new space at Bessie Branham Community Center @ 5:00. This is an opportunity for our congregation to grow-space for our community of faith to invite and share and offer hospitality to all people.
It will be a change from our coffee house worship-we will still need to Create Space and be Creative with this space. If you have some special/sacred art or artifact, creation or construction to add to our worship space that would be great-bring it with you on the 18th. We will stay after worship on the 11th and work on some community banners, too. I am excited and a little nervous of all that is ahead, but I do believe that God is leading and guiding us to this next place.
Following are several prayer requests, dreams and visions that I ask you and encourage you to pray about with me:
A good move for all of us
Loving child care for our children
Meaningful & creative worship, offering God's love and new life
New friends and neighbors to fill this space
Our Kirkwood UCC Church and Community
Our larger UCC community
Waiting, Watching, Hoping, Praying and with much love,
Susannah
It follows the rule —the experience of planting the small seed, the digging in at first, the watering, the fertilizing—waiting—watching—hoping—praying and then it begins to happen, little by little. That’s what it feels like this month. Kirkwood UCC has been growing—slowly, but steadily, little by little, day by day with much waiting—watching-hoping and praying.
May 18th marks our first move—- creating space for more. We will gather for worship in our new space at Bessie Branham Community Center @ 5:00. This is an opportunity for our congregation to grow-space for our community of faith to invite and share and offer hospitality to all people.
It will be a change from our coffee house worship-we will still need to Create Space and be Creative with this space. If you have some special/sacred art or artifact, creation or construction to add to our worship space that would be great-bring it with you on the 18th. We will stay after worship on the 11th and work on some community banners, too. I am excited and a little nervous of all that is ahead, but I do believe that God is leading and guiding us to this next place.
Following are several prayer requests, dreams and visions that I ask you and encourage you to pray about with me:
A good move for all of us
Loving child care for our children
Meaningful & creative worship, offering God's love and new life
New friends and neighbors to fill this space
Our Kirkwood UCC Church and Community
Our larger UCC community
Waiting, Watching, Hoping, Praying and with much love,
Susannah
1 comment:
Hi Susannah,
I'm interested in learning more about faith communities in Kirkwood. Being a resident of over 1 year, they seem to be literally, on every block. Do churches here work together, and/or communicate in anyway. Seeing that your community is fairly new here to Kirkwood, how has the reception been, has there been any?
Thanks,
Adrienne
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