This weekend is the third in our fall stewardship campaign. Hopefully by now you’ve received your campaign brochure that contains your unique, one-of-a-kind puzzle piece. Each member household of our church has received one of these pieces, which fit together into a giant, 8-foot tall puzzle we’re creating in the middle of the Gathering Space. Last weekend individuals and families began returning and placing their pieces into the puzzle to demonstrate their commitment to Transfiguration, our One Body. My family placed our piece in the puzzle just yesterday. I hope you will come to church this weekend and fit your piece into our puzzle (post a picture on social media with the hashtag #pieceofchrist). We are the Body of Christ only when all our members are fit together. You are that important, to Christ and to his church.
Last weekend we heard from Evan Williams about how his family feels like Transfiguration is their community. He told a great story of realizing how, without even noticing, he had grown to love and trust our church to be an extension of his family. If you missed it, I hope you’ll take a minute to listen or read it, and David Diggs’s from the previous week, too. This weekend we’ll hear from Kip and Delynda Moravec, who have a similarly compelling story about feeling like they’re a part of something big and holy at Transfiguration, and how their involvement has drawn them deeper into their faith.
By now you should have received a letter from me containing a pledge certificate and invitation to our Ingathering Celebration next week (single, combined service at 10:00 a.m. next Sunday, October 23). Bring your certificate back any time before or on that morning, and allow us to ask God’s blessing upon it and all the sacrificial commitments of financial support. At that Ingathering, after the combined service, we’ll go to work together as One Body to make an impact on the lives of others. Thanks to the leadership of our Outreach Committee, three stations will be set up around our buildings where people of all ages can perform an outreach project. When else do we have 400 people gathered together, able to work together to serve others? I can’t wait to see what we are able to accomplish.
It feels like more and more people are climbing into the rowing shell of our church, picking up an oar, and starting to pull. It feels like more and more people are realizing how sacredly important they are to God and our church. We are many members, friends, but Christ joins us together into his One Body.
See you this weekend.
-Casey+