The Moderator's Column
Greetings once again from your Moderator as we end one month and look anew at our District’s theme and challenge together: “for our neighbor’s good!” I hope you took on the challenge of the Extra Plate. At my home church of Polo, we gathered $200 and took it down to City Hall to pay for stranger's water bills! The mayor and town clerk were astonished and said it was the first time a church or anyone has helped people they don’t know! The challenge is still on!
Ash Wednesday is March 6th and it is a time that many denominations celebrate giving something up. I would like to challenge our churches to give something away. instead of collecting your money and giving it together somewhere, create a large picture of a plate posted in a position either in your Narthex or Fellowship Hall with some coins or paper dollars available near the poster. Your assignment during your weeks is to pay it forward it some way to people in your lives.
When you come to church, take a coin or dollar there and state what you did and then post it on your plate on the wall. At the end of the month, please snap a picture of the poster and send it to the district office so that we can include it in a video for District Conference this year!
I would love to show everyone all the different ways that we worked at giving to others, particularly those we don’t know with love and support like Jesus told us to try and do.
Good luck: pay for those coffees, buy that paper, and pay for that meal in line at the drive-through, or at the movies, or at the store. I can’t wait to see what we do with this one. And remember: we are doing this “For the glory of God”.
Blessings,
Leslie Lake
Ash Wednesday is March 6th and it is a time that many denominations celebrate giving something up. I would like to challenge our churches to give something away. instead of collecting your money and giving it together somewhere, create a large picture of a plate posted in a position either in your Narthex or Fellowship Hall with some coins or paper dollars available near the poster. Your assignment during your weeks is to pay it forward it some way to people in your lives.
When you come to church, take a coin or dollar there and state what you did and then post it on your plate on the wall. At the end of the month, please snap a picture of the poster and send it to the district office so that we can include it in a video for District Conference this year!
I would love to show everyone all the different ways that we worked at giving to others, particularly those we don’t know with love and support like Jesus told us to try and do.
Good luck: pay for those coffees, buy that paper, and pay for that meal in line at the drive-through, or at the movies, or at the store. I can’t wait to see what we do with this one. And remember: we are doing this “For the glory of God”.
Blessings,
Leslie Lake
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