Just in case anyone has missed the news, SOOHI – the Saint Mark’s Stretching Out Our Hands Inititiative is operational! On Sunday, May 3rd, we were fed a wonderful meal and given excellent workshop advice. For a first day, the effort was a roaring success. For a pastor to see and be part of ministry that is beyond the normm (almost on a cutting edge that truthfully is throwback to the first century church) is a huge and exciting blessing. Too often throughout history the church has talked a better game than it has lived….. hence the name we all despise, hypocrites.
But you, beloved of God, have stepped out in ways that will carry us to places beyond any we have imagined. The church is at its best when it serves others. I give thanks for serving a church with a vision that Christ himself cast when he said, “Tend my sheep.” Oh sure, there is tweaking that will need to be done and resources that will be called forth, but the path is being laid out and each of us is being called to walk this path.
We can’t do everything, but we can do something… something that is important to God, something that is beyond ourselves, something that gives shape and form to the words of faith we espouse.
Only God knows the difference we will make. May God be blessed in our work, praised and glorified in each step we take. And may each person involved in a ministry that is SOOHI we can’t get over it or around it find life right in the middle of it! I don’t know about you, but I don’t ever want to be over it! Blessings, all. Pastor Lib
