Community Sunday - Gratitude
By Janet Nordlund--
This Sunday is Community Sunday, and our theme is Gratitude!! We get to remember and celebrate our Big God together as a whole faith community.
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a Living Hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead…” 1 Peter 1:3
We need Jesus to be Our Living Hope as much as we ever have. Our Hope is alive today in this world in all circumstances and situations because of Who Jesus is!!! He is bigger than all diseases of the body and mind, all distances that separate us from all we hope for, all discouragements and disasters that come our way, all manner of darkness and deception, and Jesus is even bigger than death! As we come together to express and experience Gratitude in many ways, we get to remember and celebrate that as Jesus followers, our Gratitude comes from the Living Hope of Jesus! AND we get to give that Living Hope in Jesus away to others, too!!!
What to Bring:
- Yourself!! We aren’t Us without You!!
- Picture/s of your Loved Ones who are no longer here with us, if you like, and a few words to describe what you loved about them to share on our Remembrance Boards.
- Shoebox/es for Giving and Blessing of Operation Christmas Child ‘21.
- Please take time before Sunday to connect with The Holy Spirit and these verses as your jumping off point for Gratitude.
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead… In all this we greatly rejoice, though now for a little while we may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of our faith—of greater worth than gold...may result in praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though we have not seen him, we love him; and even though we do not see him now, we believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for we are receiving the end result of our faith, the salvation of our souls." 1 Peter 1: 3, 6-9