Dear Lake Deaton Family,
This weekend we will join with Christians from all over the world to participate in World Communion!
This special celebration, which takes place the first Sunday of every October, was created by Presbyterian pastor Hugh Thomson in 1933. It was started in a time when the world found itself dividing over political, ethnic and other social issues. Dr. Thomson created this special day out of a deeply felt commitment to the reality that every congregation is interconnected to every other congregation, through our commitment to the centrality of God’s love through Jesus Christ.
Over the past few years, I have experienced great times of sorrow over the divides taking place in our world. I am convinced that we need to be jolted back into the Gospel call of the early church. What is the Gospel call? It is love––love offered to us from God through Jesus, love that we are then called to share with others. The Apostle John says it this way…
"Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins."
(1 John 4:7–10)
Let’s come together this weekend under God’s passionate love for each of us and for the world around us as we join in celebrating the Great Thanksgiving of World Communion.
Blessings,
