U MATTERS
Last Saturday, our leaders and staff met for a retreat - Imagining Mission in our Neighbourhood. It was a time of worship, prayer, and laughter. We participated in some team building exercises, reflected on scripture, discussed pre-reads and heard about the specific needs in Wan Chai. Our retreats facilitate opportunities for us to grow and work together as a team - to explore ways in which we can love our neighbours.
Martin Robinson in his book The Place of the Parish wrote,
“The parish does not exist to draw people into the Church but is the means by which the message of the Church radiates outwards to seek to touch as many aspects of the parish as possible. In other words, the idea of the parish is not an inward movement that isolates people from the world but an outward movement that acts as the yeast that transforms the whole.” p. 23
We are excited about this next new season at Union Church. As we continue to grow and work together - we need to pray. The month of September has been set apart for a focus on prayer. This Sunday we kick off a new sermon series entitled “Moving the Needle through Prayer” and our leaders have prepared prayer devotionals to guide our daily prayer. We encourage you to collect your booklet on Sunday or stop by the church during the week. Together let’s pray for this next new season.
Richard Foster said, “We are working with God to determine the future! Certain things will happen in history if we pray rightly. We can change the world by prayer.”
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church ~
~ Pastor Michele
