Earth, Wind and Fire sing the question for this season.
Do you remember, September?
Although we are not quite ready to bid the long summer days away, September is coming, and we are excited to begin a new program year at Mount Olivet. And although Covid still lingers, we can be back together, and we are reminded that being together is a gift. It also makes us wonder: why do we go to church…what difference does it make? We all have different answers to this question but at the center is hope that God still loves this world and each of us enough to be present in the here and now and somehow uses what we have to offer to make a difference. And none of this happens alone. We need to be there for one another. God gathers community.
The mission of Mount Olivet is to find our place in God’s unfolding story and we are always finding our place, again and again. And so, this fall, we find our place after we have been apart from one another. We promise in baptism to know and celebrate each other’s call in the world and so we start there, connecting names with faces and listening to stories. Whether you are new to Mount Olivet or have been here a long time, you have gifts to offer and a place to connect and be known.
Worship this fall will be centered in scripture from the Old and New Testaments that circle around simple human questions—Where are you from? What hurts? What do you need? How do you give? Where do we go from here?
God has something to say to us and we trust the Spirit will gather us as community, connecting us to God and one another and the places where we are called to respond and receive.
So welcome back. Your presence makes a difference.