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Serving ?? and Counting
On the front page of our website and in our Sunday bulletin we asked, How many are you serving? McDonalds has the right idea – they no longer report the number of burgers sold, they tell how many “have been served!” After hearing this comment in an inspirational speech encouraging us to imagine the possibilities, the SWC delegation at General Synod decided to take this to heart.
Each week, you’ll receive a tally sheet in the Sunday Bulletin asking you how many you have “served” doing God’s work. Any act, large or small, counts. Did you help at the Community Cupboard? Did you listen to a friend’s worries? Did you donate useable articles to a shelter? Did you write a get well card? Try to keep a mental record of the many acts of God’s work you did during the week, and then fill in the tally sheet and place it in the offering plate. We’ll begin a running tally (just like McDonalds) on our website and in our bulletin, and each church will submit its numbers to the SWC where there will be a conference-wide tally on their web site.
What’s the point? We who believe are examples of God’s love out in the world, and the strength of our faith and our living it isn’t in how many members we have or how much money we have; it’s in what we do for others in the Name of God. And those numbers are huge! We want everyone to be aware of how much God’s presence is out there, because of the good being done in God’s name.
We want to know how many have been served…
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