Dear Friends,
Thank you so very much, Pastor Jewell, for your wonderful leadership and message shared during last Sunday’s worship service! It was a gift to have all six of the McGhee’s and Jewell’s Mom and Dad (also known as Grandma and Grandpa Stanford) leading us in worship! Yes! We do indeed need each other!
Pastor Jewell reminded us that we need to remember the stories of our ancestors in faith…all the way back to Abraham and Sarah, their son, Isaac, and Isaac’s sons, Esau and Jacob. We learn from both their stories of faithfulness
and
their stories of failure.
This week we will read about Jacob, our ancestor in faith who was a real trickster. In this story, Jacob needed to get out of town quickly after tricking his father into giving him the blessing that was intended for his older twin brother, Esau. Jacob chose to get out of town and away from trouble, but God caught up with Jacob in what has become a fairly well-known dream that included angels on a staircase that reached all the way to heaven.
We will talk more about this amazing God who shows up and can be found in the most unlikely places and at the most unlikely times in our lives. I look forward to worshiping with you this Sunday, believing that no matter where we are in the world, God will show up.
God’s grace and peace be with you,
Pastor Kim
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