Greeting Holy People of God,

God’s work. Our hands. We have looked at this for many weeks, lifting up and recognizing the many organizations and ministries that we partner with as a community of faith and also individually. Thank you for sharing the ways you reach beyond our walls, following Jesus’ example.

There are also many ways that each of you as individuals carry out God’s work through your hands. I give thanks to God for you and the many ways God works through your hands. Do any of these sound familiar?

Send encouraging cards, notes, poems to grieving or downhearted people.

Provide rides to doctor appointments.

Help feed people at care centers.

Give wheelchair rides at care centers.

Visit the hospitalized.

Provide meals to new moms & others overwhelmed by life situations.

Write editorials & vote for candidates who believe in justice.

Listen to people who are hurting.

Volunteer at “Walk to End Alzheimer’s”

Quilting at CTK

Rides to church

Choir

Free Lunch

Fellowship

Following Jesus leads us to reach out to our neighbors in so many and wonderful ways. When I visited Luann Myers this past week, she had a version of “God’s work. Our Hands.” hanging in her kitchen well before it became a popular tag line for the ELCA. Her’s reads, “Hands to work. Heart to God.” Loving God propels us to be about what God is about and we get to do this work, partnering with God and each other. And in our work, God is glorified and made known through us. Thanks be to God!

Bold Inquisitive Belief Loving Expansively,

Pastor Connie Spitzack