Can you use one hand to count the number of congregations you have been a member of? Or participated in? I knew only one congregation until I was 18. Therein, was laid a foundation for me, I believe. Since 18, however, I would need 10 fingers and a few toes to count the number of congregations I have been a part of! And through 42 years of those I have NOT been a member of a congregation exactly, but rather a “clergy member” of an Annual Conference of United Methodists!

But…..back to you. How many have YOU participated in? Were you in one that was a new “mission church” or new church start?! Or were you active during a building campaign?
Were you “out” of church for a while and then “came back?”

Our spiritual journeys are as diverse as the languages spoken on the Day of Pentecost for the Church in the book of Acts chapter 2. The Spirit has been “poured out” v. 18 on you and the many and, thus, the Church still lives!

This Sunday we celebrate the birth of the Church and the very fact that “I am the church, you are the church, we are the church together, all around the world, all who follow Jesus; yes, we are the church together.” Sing! Sing! Sing!

See you Sunday!

Pastor Barry