May 12, 2015
Dear Lakeshore,
Our month long emphasis on creation care continues on May 17 with Bike to Church Sunday. The Department of Social Concerns is sponsoring the Coffee Hour, there will be a Quarterly Meeting of the Congregation following worship and our monthly Stand and Sing for Justice will take place on Mandana Green at 2:00.
My sermon is titled “Guardians and Gardeners” and will be taken from Joel 2:18-27. In this text the prophet tells the people that they, along with the land, will experience the mercy of God, perceive the forgiveness of the Creator, in the bounty of the harvest. The prophet’s words are, “The threshing floors shall be full of grain, the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.”
As Guardians and Gardeners of the good earth we fulfill our role as beings created in the image of good and we are graced by tender mercies of both Creator and Creation.
Prayers from Sunday at LABC
- Maxwell Vines and family as they mourn the death of his daughter Lynette
- Karen Okusu for her mom
- Sydney Webster for her dad
- Ruben Artery for his brother
- Sheryl and Dave Gattey for Sheryl’s mom and their nephew Phil
- Jerry and Charlene Wolf for Jerry’s mom
- Tyrone Mack for his mom
- Kay Baxter and family
- Sandra Dunn for her father and herself
- Joan Thatcher, health concerns
- Linda Earl for her sister-in-law Sophia
- Ted and Doris Evans
- Rae Rita Thompson for her father and her uncle
- Myra Saxton for her mother
- Ken Betts (owner of gas station next door), health concerns
- Thanksgiving with Alean Sanders-Coffey on a family celebration
- Thanksgiving with Bjoe Morris on a place to live
- Thanksgiving with Sydney Webster as she graduates from ABSW
- Those impacted by tornadoes in the South and Midwest
- The people of Hattiesburg, Mississippi as they mourn two police officers slain in the line of duty
- The homeless residents of our Lakeshore neighborhood
- President Obama and family
- Thanksgiving with Whiley Joachim and family on her graduation from the University of the Puget Sound
- The ministry of Shell Ridge Community Church
- The ministry of the American Baptist Homes of the West
- The ministry of the American Baptist Seminary of the West
- The ministry of our Hunger Task Force
- The ministry of the One Great Hour of Sharing Offering