This past Sunday at Trinity, almost fifty new members were welcomed into our congregation. I ask you to keep our new members, and our congregation in your prayers. Together in faith, we will continue the tradition started with a dream more than 90 years ago. We have things to do! Baptizing, worshiping, sharing the sacrament of holy communion and so many other important meals, raising new saints and caring for each other and for the world, and sending saints into eternity - how could we do all these things alone?

We know that even as saints, we aren’t perfect. We struggle and we stumble, we fall short, we disagree and sometimes we even fight. But it is in our imperfections that we bear witness to the abundant love of God in Jesus, who washes us clean, and receives us only by grace. It is God who knits us together in this one holy church which is the body of Christ.

My prayer for myself, and for each of you, for our congregation and for the whole church, is that, together with all the saints, we share our time and our talents and our treasure, and we to continue to make a difference for each other and for the world. I pray that we continue to live a resurrection life during our time here on earth, even as we look toward heaven. We are all part of something greater than ourselves, “part of the unending ribbon of God’s children, walking wet from baptism to eternity, walking by faith and not by our own meager efforts.”