Holy Covenant UMC Newsletter Seek with God's heart Grow in God's word Serve all God's people In This Issue God Prepares the Way Welcoming Our New Pastor! Women's Summer Read Project Transformation FREE Karate Camp Come to "The Well" Christianity is Not a Spectator Sport Summer is here, where did the offerings go? From the Missions Committee Journey to the Mountain Choir Tour 2012 Children's Ministry Kids' Sunday School Classes for Toddlers through 5th Grade at 9:45 am! Sunday School will BEE fun with Buzz! Issue: #64 June 29, 2012 From Cassie God Prepares the Way For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope. Jeremiah 29:11 I am fortunate to have a small group of women with whom I covenant to travel on our journey from seminary to ordination and beyond. Throughout our relationship, we have upheld each other in prayer during times of struggle, exhaustion, exhilaration, and transition. It is not uncommon for one of us to receive short text messages just when we need them the most as if guided by the hand of God. On Monday this week, I met with the District Committee on Ministry to be examined for referral to the conference Board of Ministry, the first of several steps toward ordination. As expected, I had the appropriate feeling in the pit of my stomach and a certain amount of doubt that I was adequately prepared for this meeting. Then my phone chimed and the text message calmed all my fears. My covenant sister simply wrote, "May you feel the presence of the Holy Spirit who has gone before you and prepared the way." I think that times of transition are sometimes the most difficult to navigate because of the number of unknowns. We simply are not created with a special ability to see into our future and know the things that will transpire or the places we will be. We do not know what tomorrow will bring. As we prepare for Rev. Rusty Hedges to come, we can feel that feeling in the pit of our stomach because we do not know how things will change. I also think about how Rusty and Betsy must feel, for they must also leave the place they have called home for the past several years. Their transition also includes many new faces and new places to Holy Covenant UMC Newsletter https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?age... 1 of 7 7/4/2012 8:33 AM
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Holy Covenant UMC Newsletter
Seek with God's heart Grow in God's word Serve all God's people
In This Issue
God Prepares the Way
Welcoming Our New Pastor!
Women's Summer Read
Project Transformation
FREE Karate Camp
Come to "The Well"
Christianity is Not a SpectatorSport
Summer is here, where did theofferings go?
From the Missions Committee
Journey to the Mountain ChoirTour 2012
Children's Ministry
Kids' Sunday School
Classes for Toddlers through
5th Grade at 9:45 am!
Sunday School will BEE fun
with Buzz!
Issue: #64 June 29, 2012
From Cassie
God Prepares the Way
For surely I know the plans I have for
you, says the LORD, plans for your
welfare and not for harm, to give you a
future with hope. Jeremiah 29:11
I am fortunate to have a small group of
women with whom I covenant to travel on
our journey from seminary to ordination
and beyond. Throughout our relationship,
we have upheld each other in prayer
during times of struggle, exhaustion,
exhilaration, and transition. It is not
uncommon for one of us to receive short
text messages just when we need them
the most as if guided by the hand of God. On Monday this week,
I met with the District Committee on Ministry to be examined for
referral to the conference Board of Ministry, the first of several
steps toward ordination. As expected, I had the appropriate
feeling in the pit of my stomach and a certain amount of doubt
that I was adequately prepared for this meeting. Then my phone
chimed and the text message calmed all my fears. My covenant
sister simply wrote, "May you feel the presence of the Holy Spirit
who has gone before you and prepared the way."
I think that times of transition are sometimes the most difficult
to navigate because of the number of unknowns. We simply are
not created with a special ability to see into our future and know
the things that will transpire or the places we will be. We do not
know what tomorrow will bring. As we prepare for Rev. Rusty
Hedges to come, we can feel that feeling in the pit of our
stomach because we do not know how things will change. I also
think about how Rusty and Betsy must feel, for they must also
leave the place they have called home for the past several years.
Their transition also includes many new faces and new places to