May 07 2010
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Christian Family Sunday at Living Faith
Hello friends,
This Sunday, according to our calendars, is Mother’s Day – a time when we honour and celebrate our mothers, or those who have served as a mother figure for us. In the Presbyterian Church in Canada, this Sunday has also been set aside as Christian Family Sunday – a day to thank God for our families. As many of you know, Nancy (our Director of Student Ministries) and I were away all last week at the “Think Orange” conference in Duluth, Georgia. This is a Family Ministries conference designed to examine the role of church (yellow) and family (red) and how the two can partner together to raise the next generation. While we were at the conference, the Barna Group, a Christian research organization, released the results of its latest poll on The State of Church and Family. Some of the results were mind-boggling – and disheartening, especially when we it comes to the state of the family. Now, more than ever, the church needs to step up to its responsibility to care for families, whatever format the family might happen to take. And it IS the church’s responsibility, as seen in Deuteronomy 6. I hope you will join us for worship this Sunday as we examine Deut. 6 and discuss the responsibility we have- as a church AND a family – to “think orange”.
A reminder of our spring clean-up day tomorrow (Saturday) at Living Faith. We’ll be sprucing up our property, inside and out, starting at about 8am. Thanks to Gary Cochrane and his crew for cutting the dandelions – I mean grass – this afternoon. The lawn and the gardens look beautiful!
May Christ’s peace be with you,
Heather
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