Pastor's Message
June 2024
May was a very exciting month, which began with a baptism, followed by the feast of Pentecost and the Holy Trinity. Ray and I were away early in the month for the 100th anniversary of the founding of Elim Bible Institute and College, from which I graduated in 1976. This was a time of seeing classmates and friends from long ago, as well as a time of renewal. I felt like I got a booster shot of the Holy Spirit.
This month is also very exciting, but in a different way. We are entering the season of the church year with green paraments, sometimes referred to as ordinary time. As one author explains:
Ordinary Time is called "ordinary" not because it is not special or less significant but simply because the weeks of Ordinary Time are numbered…the numbered weeks of Ordinary Time, in fact, represent the ordered life of the Church—the period in which we live our lives neither in feasting (as in the Christmas and Easter seasons) or in more severe penance (as in Advent and Lent). (Jeff Cavins, media.ascensionpress.com).
It is a time to relax, but not so much that we forget who we are in Christ and the family of God. Speaking of which, would you like to join us in trying out our new big-screen TV in the fellowship hall? We'll be viewing "Jesus Revolution." More information about this can be found in another part of the Church Mouse.
Ray and I will be away at our annual Synod Assembly, in Syracuse, from the afternoon of Sunday, June 2-Tuesday, June 4. Please keep everyone in prayer as we do the work together of Christ's church.
On that note, may this year's ordinary time be extraordinary.
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.
Pastor Ivy Gauvin