Mid-Week Pause Service 1/26/22
This week’s Pause Worship Video is posted below.
Order Welcome-Travis Centering Prayer – Carolyn Prayer-Travis Closing Song – The Lord Bless You and Keep You
As a reminder, this coming Sunday, January 30th, worship will be online only. Virtual zoom coffee hour 10:00 am.
| Bring your Hopes, Bring your Doubts, Feed your Soul. |
| First things first: Big News (drum roll) The Judson Council approved the COVID Response Task Force’s plan to resume in-person worship on February 13th (with masks and social distancing required). The vote was passed by e-mail vote of Council members on January 26, 2022. In other news, I had a wonderful phone conversation today with Carl Appelquist! He sounded great. He wanted me to tell you hello, give you his love, to tell you he is becoming a believer more each day (which we both agreed is saying something), and that he is praying for Judson Church. He feels that Judson is not just going to make it, but that Judson is going to thrive! It has been a full week of meetings and such at the Church: Outreach and Engagement, Racial Justice Team, Environmental/Climate Justice Team, Spiritual Voyageurs, and the delivery of household goods to the Afghanistan refugee family; it’s only Wednesday! Maybe you have heard about the free placement of Judson Church in the past couple of weeks on MPR. I started tweeting every morning to Cathy Wurzer bike commuting updates…and she reads them! She pronounces my last name wrong, but I don’t care because she pronounces Judson Church’s name right! How much longer will this last? I don’t know, but until it stops… Lastly, over the weekend Lori and I saw Come From Away the Broadway musical about the 38 planes that were grounded on 9/11 in the small town of Gander Newfoundland, Canada. I pretty much cried through the entire performance. It was a classic story of hospitality: open yourself up to strangers and your world will change exponentially. The play left me more hopeful about the future, and I’ll take all the hope I can get right now! (The musical is also streaming on Apple TV). Lastly, Peace, Travis Prayer-Poem for the Day “Holy Saturday,” by Caryll Houselander. All around the church, there are ruins. Ruins of the home, ruins of the heart, ruins of the dreams of men. And everywhere there are those who propose to build a new world on the foundation of ruins. Find Judson on the internet through our link tree, linktr.ee/JudsonChurch |
