Fellowship Sunday

There has been a desire in my heart for us to be a church that is united and that grows in being a much bet­ter rep­re­sen­ta­tion of what it means for us to be the Body of Christ. I have been preach­ing a lot on the idea that we need to have unity within our own con­gre­ga­tion in order to be a light that shines brighter in our com­mu­nity and around the world.

To be hon­est, I never really thought of how chal­leng­ing it would be to unite a church that has two dif­fer­ent lan­guages, and two dif­fer­ent cul­tures. The lack of atten­tion this web­site in itself has received is just proof that, to mix two totally dif­fer­ent peo­ple group together is dif­fi­cult. How do you do it equally? How do you meet the spe­cific needs of each? How do you deal with dif­fer­ences in expres­sions of wor­ship, atten­tion needs, and every­thing else involved with it?

So, we came up with this idea that maybe if we spent more time together, not around songs or teach­ing, but just «being» together it would help grow bonds between cul­tures. That «being» in the same place together by shar­ing cof­fee together, exchang­ing a smile even though we can­not com­mu­ni­cate beyond that, giv­ing each other a small lit­tle cup­cake… maybe we would real­ize that our church crosses over lan­guage and cul­ture. That one thing unites us, and that is the love of Christ in each one of us there.

So, will you join us? Join us for this time of fel­low­ship on the 1st Sun­day of each month. We meet between the Eng­lish and the French ser­vice from 10:30 to 11:00. I’ll be look­ing for­ward to pour­ing you a cup of cof­fee and hope­fully make you feel right at home.

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