18 days and counting

Church is about being a Christian community together, and in worship this past Sunday, we had a wonderful opportunity to experience our connections to the Lutheran Church in Liberia. Two of our members who recently traveled to Liberia, brought words of thanks from people in area where a new mission field is beginning. Partnering with the ELCA and the Lutheran Church in Liberia, we will help the people there in their dream of building a church and school. During worship, our friends presented gifts to the leaders and pastors as an expression of thanks for our partnership. If you didn’t see the garments, come and look – they’re amazing. They were made by women in the village, who prayed for us at Bethlehem while they sewed. On Sunday our Bethlehem friends spoke about how light is beginning to shine in their home village in Liberia: lights from a generator to chase away the nighttime, the light of learning, and the light of Jesus Christ. Hmm. Maybe the light of Christ has been there already, and now it’s shining to us. Thanks be to God!

Prayer
Draw your church together, O God, into one great company of disciples, together following our teacher Jesus Christ, into every walk of life, together serving in Christ’s mission to the world, and together witnessing to your love wherever you will send us; for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

--Evangelical Lutheran Worship, p. 75.