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Just to let everyone know that I have added a new Photo Album below entitled 'HARVEST'.
I will be adding to it over the next few days. If you have anything to offer please send it to...
Today, Friday 23rd September 2011, we celebrate the September Equinox, one of two days in the year when the length of day and the length of night are approximately equal and to some, the first day of Autumn. At about this time in biblical days, the feast of Tabernacles was celebrated and there was the ceremony of the outpouring of water, drawn from Siloam, in commemoration of the refreshing stream which had come forth miraculously out of the rock at Meribah (Ex. 17:1-7).
In a similar vain we have our Harvest Thanksgiving in a few weeks time.
The length of daylight hours seems to have shortened very quickly this year ( I must be getting old!!!) and the street lights are now on before I sit down and relax for the evening (if I get the chance!). Already I am hearing people speak of Christmas and what services we shall be having this year. Before we know it, the other equinox will be with us again!
However, on the subject of services. What would people like to see by way of 'special' services over the coming months (Blue Christmas, Solstice Light Festival, Carols Round the Christmas Tree, etc)?
Some of these services have become traditional (we have had them at least once) here in Abbotsford and I am sure that we would not like to see them disappear. Importantly, they are also services which can be organised and led by the congregation and we will need to get the congregation involved as much as possible in them.
Therefore... please let me know your thoughts and ideas???
Please feel free to contribute to this discussion wherever you are in the world and if you are visiting this place, we would also be interested to hear how things are for you, now that the nights are getting longer than the days (or the days are getting longer than the nights!!!)
Love to the world!
Today was the first Sunday of our vacancy and we welcomed our Interim Moderator to lead our morning service.
We all hope that this will be a time of renewal and the beginning of another good chapter in what has been the relatively short life of Abbotsford.
The interim moderator certainly got us off to a good start and everyone enjoyed the service based on the Loaves and Fishes. Keeping in mind that we are entering a time of uncertainty, we were reminded that we are ALL needed, in whatever capacity.
I would reinforce that this is most certainly the case.
We must not forget that it is after all OUR church. If we lose just one person, whether member, adherant or simply someone who comes along now and again, then the place will have lost someone who obviously finds something here and the place and the people will be all the worse off for it. We need strength in numbers.
So once again, please stay with us.
Let an office bearer know if there is something that you are not entirely happy with.
Don't hold it in.
Let someone, who may be able to do something about it, know.
Don't start an undercurrent of gossip.
Ask someone you trust, if you hear something you don't think to be correct.
Don't stop coming to church because you don't like something.
Let someone, who may be able to do something about it, know.
Together, we can go forward and create something new that we can all be proud of.
Together!
I make no apology for once again quoting the following...Ecclesiastes 4 9:10
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