serving – katyandtheword

Good News can come through emptiness

Mary didn’t know Jesus was risen
She turned to a stranger
The person who was tending the dirt
And asked for help

Do you see the Easter moment

It’s hiding right there

It’s not in the race before
No trumpets or proclamations in John

It starts in a moment
of hoping for hope
of reaching out
in planting seeds
After all God was the first Gardener
Is it little wonder that
Jesus is once again on his knees
in the dirt

And Mary reaches out to him
Easter has started
There in the dark
Even before she knows it

The resurrection
starts in those moments
of planting and tending

and then slowly
unfurl
for days
months
as long as we need
to turn
our mourning
into dancing

Here’s hoping
you have those moments
Throughout the
Easter season

Good News can
Come even
through
moments
of emptiness

Creation came
through Holy
Darkness

I hope you
Experience
that this
Easter Season

My church works hard to be community oriented and to be out in the neighborhood.

1 that runs a Neighborhood Farmer’s Market in our parking lot from May-Oct, completely thru volunteers

1 that arranges for free exercise classes (with babysitting) during the farmer’s market

A Market that book-ended by 2 Chicken BBQ fundraisers (the company cooks, we serve)

p.s. we put up great signs for these events. GREAT signs!

1 that puts on a health fair, plays, concerts, art shows.

1 that has done a clothing exchange, electronic recycling,

1 that has a weekly free playgroup and runs a 2, 3, and 4yr old Nursery School

1 that hosts over a dozen AA’s, 3 other congregations, 2 community choirs, an immigrant ministry & the neighborhood association

When I talk to people about my church, the reach is far.

Our location is good, most people have stepped into our building at some point for various things

Our Farmer’s Market is well known, we are possibly the best small farmer’s market in the city

And everyone is shocked, I mean shocked by how small we are….they think we have 150 people at least

Why is that?

Because we are bigger on the inside

That’s what happens when a church holds God and the Community in their hearts..

we end up growing in ways that we can’t even comprehend….

And God increases our efforts twofold/fourfold/tenfold

Its time to STOP thinking of ourselves as a small church, and to start thinking of ourselves as bigger on the inside

Tag: serving

Easter Blessings, throughout the Season

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