“GOT QUESTIONS?” WORSHIP SERIES
Got Questions about faith? What do you wonder about? What do you find confusing? What would you like to know more about?
Please join us July 14th and 21st as we answer your previously submitted burning questions about faith.
We will worship in the Fellowship Hall on Sunday mornings all summer!
We look forward to seeing you on Sundays at 10:25 a.m. in person or online at https://www.facebook.com/WilliamStreetUMC/.
A note from Pastor Jennifer Applegate
July 5, 2024
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
– John 15: 1 – 11
Dear Friends,
As we bring our “Awakened Traveler” worship series on travel to a close, we contemplate what it means to return home. After stretching our spirits and our love to include more of God’s glorious creation and its peoples, we return to a home that will never be the same to us. We have returned with “guests”–memories of new friends and new perspectives. Perhaps we also return with new convictions to be more active and loving citizens of humanity right where we reside. Jesus says, “abide in me” and follows that up with the commandment to love one another. The beauty of travel as a spiritual act is, as Rick Steves says, that our prized souvenirs are the “strands of different cultures we decide to knit into our own character.”
How have you been changed as a result of traveling? What new learnings about other cultures and peoples have made an impact on you? What is your greatest gift from your travels? You still have time to bring in your travel pictures! We’ll leave them up through July 14 so you can enjoy them.
I look forward to seeing you on Sunday, July 7, 2024, at 10:25 a.m. in person or online at https://www.facebook.com/WilliamStreetUMC/. It’s a communion Sunday. If you’re worshipping online, please come to worship prepared with your bread and juice.
Pastor Jennifer
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