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Brown Bag Ministry Prepares and Packs
Where: St. Eugene’s Church, Wendell, NC
When: Saturday, June 12th
What: 1400 Brown Bag Lunches
For: Food Insecure Communities in Raleigh & Eastern Wake County
Carpool: 8:30am from KUMC Parking Lot
Need to Bring: Family & Friends
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One of the valuable things about our week in DIberville, Ms last week was the realization that we are part of a connectional church that has staying power. After Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf coast, FEMA, the Red Cross and a number of church organizations went there to help with the clean up and rebuilding, stayed for a while or several months, maybe a year. But the United Methodist Church made a commitment to go and to stay until lives and hearts and homes were healed.
Of course new storms, new crises, new devastation come along and people's memories tend to be short and the help goes elsewhere. But where people continue to hurt, live in awful conditions and feel destitute, help is still needed. We were a part of the continuing effort living out a commitment we made four and a half years ago to the people of the D'Iberville/Biloxi area to go back and go back and go back until there are no long people living in deplorable conditions. Christians don't abandon people who are hurting. Like the Good Samaritan, we stay with the injured until they are healed.
We were a little less than half of the total group there last week, but the people of Knightdale UMC were the core and the drivers of th overall effort. We did good work and did a lot of it. You can be proud of the disciples from among our community of faith. We did truly "grow in grace, faith and discipleship" among the wreckage. We were the hands, the arms, the legs, the feet of God in that place and were the face of hope to those people. And we will return until the hope is realized. Amen and amen.
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Two key terms in the United Methodist system are "connected church" and "continuity." A pastor who has been part of our lives for the last nine years and saw us through building an entire new church facility moves on to where God leads her and a new pastor whom God has called to lead this church forward moves into that office to lead KUMC where God wants it to go from here.
As you Disciple Bible study folk know, God chose Moses to lead the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt and into the 40-year journey to the promise land. But just as they were to cross into that land, God called Joshua, not Moses, to lead them in.
This is such a time. Regardless of who the pastor is, let us all seek God's will as God leads us all toward the kingdom.
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I have been hearing that some folks don't quite understand how to get around this new thing called a blog. Hint: if you click on the text in red you will be taken to another area. For example if you click on KUMC website, you will go directly to our church website. If you click on A Fire in My Bones under Other KUMC Blogs, you will go to Jenny's pastor's website. Clicking on the picture of the cross tower you will go to an album of pictures of the church family - not many yet, but we will add to and/or replace these as we go along.
Posts are posted from newest to oldest. The newest will be at the top. If you scroll down, you will see the ones posted prior to that one. Posts from past months are found under Archives at the top of the main screen.
Hope this helps y'all to a better experience with this new communication tool.
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