Our inclusive language liturgies generally set the structure and theme of Sunday morning worship. Since announcements are an integral part of our life together, we offer some guidelines for those who make announcements towards the end of worship.
Lent 2008 – How Can This Be?
February 6 – March 20, 2008
REFLECTION
Through your radical surrender to God
you will be freed
and become a deliverer of others,
a breath of fresh air for those you meet,
a servant of all,
a source of life, expectation and hope.
How can this be?
Based on Rule for a New Brother by H. Van Der Looy
Epiphany 2008 – Entering the City of God
REFLECTION
Though it hardly seems possible now, we cling to the hope that God’s City will be established in the gift of the new heavens and the new earth. Our work is to live by the customs of the new City before it has fully come to be. In this way, the church draws the world to God. We hold forth not a condemning, but a welcoming word. All nations are invited to come to this City. And the quality of our interactions as a community will be a stronger witness than our words.
Gerrit Scott Dawson, "Called by a New Name"
Quoted in Voices of the Day (www.sojo.net )
Advent 2007 – Who’s Got the Power?
December 2 – December 23, 2007
REFLECTION
God saw the world falling into ruin because of fear and immediately acted to call it back with love. God invited it by grace, preserved it by love, and embraced it with compassion.
Peter Chrysologus, Fifth Century, An Advent Sourcebook pg.64
Advent 2007 – Who's Got the Power?
December 2 – December 23, 2007
REFLECTION
God saw the world falling into ruin because of fear and immediately acted to call it back with love. God invited it by grace, preserved it by love, and embraced it with compassion.
Peter Chrysologus, Fifth Century, An Advent Sourcebook pg.64
Jubilee 2007 – Restoring Hope
October 28 – November 25, 2007 REFLECTION
Life Is
Amazing
Baffling
Crazy
Devilish
Energizing
Fearful…
Janet Sharp
Poetry of N Street Village 2007,
edited by Cynthia Dahlin, pg 8