Offering the Gift of Friendship

Stone Soup for 10/25 will meet at the church at 5 p.m. and go from there to visit with folks who are unable to get out and about on their own. Since we will be out, we won't prepare a meal together.
Matthew 25

‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

Looking Deeper Into the Sacrifice of Isaac Story

We'll be looking at the Old Testament story of the sacrifice of Isaac and how our understanding of God is meant to be changed by this story. Genesis 22
We'll also look at the prophet Micah 6:6-8 to seek what it is that the Lord requires of us...
We've got a meeting that some people will be attending before Stone Soup so,
we'll meet at 5 but have no meal in order to be through by 6 p.m.
See you at the Wesley Cottage!

War Room

We were planning on rescheduling our  church picnic for this Sunday but it looks like we'll still have lots of rain, so How About a Sunday Afternoon MATINEE!

We'll leave from the church parking lot at 4 p.m. to go to the Epic in Hendersonville to watch the 4:45 p.m. showing of the movie, The War Room.
Tickets are $7,50 for adults and $7.00 for children and seniors

Church-Wide Picnic

Sunday 9-27 is our Church Picnic.
4:00 p.m. at Hilda's house. If you want a ride or to follow me there, meet me at church at 3:30. Church is providing the chicken and everyone else can bring a potluck dish or dessert. We'll have games to play and lots of great fellowship, so come on out.
Then if anyone is interested in viewing the lunar eclipse Sunday night at 9:30 please contact me and we can check weather and go to Orchard Hill.
Peace
Rob

Noah's New Way

Stone Soup will meet at 5 p.m. at the Saluda UMC and go from there to the Lost 40 trail. We won't hike much, just enough to get down to the water to be able to play in the stream some. Maybe we can even find some sticks, pretend they are boats and have a race! We'll be doing some work with our imaginations. Then we'll try to discover new ways (maybe they are old to you) to think about the Noah story. It is more complicated and perhaps even more disconcerting than the beautiful nursery posters we see.

We'll be working out of Brian McLaren's book, We Make the Road By Walking.

For food bring picnic stuff to share as a potluck in the woods.

Dress appropriately if you want to get wet (especially shoes you can wear in the creek) and something to keep you warm later.

We'll shoot to be done at the Lost 40 by 6:30

Here's the scripture for Sunday

Genesis 4:1-17; 6:5-8; 7:1-5; 8:1; 9:7-17

Psalm 51

James 4:1-8

The Drama of Desire 9-13-15

This Sunday at Stone Soup, we'll meet at 5 and continue our work in "We Make the Road by Walking" as our "quest for spiritual formation, reorientation and activation."
This week we will share together in Holy Communion but won't have supper.
The church has an Administrative Council meeting at 7. All are encouraged to come.
We pick up our study continuing the creation story from Genesis... "The story of Adam and Eve doesn't need to be about literal historical figures in the past to tell us something very true about us, our history, and our world today. We humans have consistently chosen the wrong tree. Instead of imitating and reflecting God as good image bearers should do, we start competing with God, edging God out, playing god ourselves. We reject the Creator and choose another model instead: a snake (the story says), who seems to represent a subtle and dangerous desire to choose rivalry and violence over harmony and well-being."
This leads us into a discussion about sin and the cycle of shame. And that's when we share communion together. We'll look at sin and seek forgiveness and the way of life that Jesus leads us in.
Read these scripture ahead. It will be helpful.
Genesis 3:1-13
Psalm 32
Philippians 2:3-11
No need to bring anything unless you just feel like it!
Peace,
Rob

Life Full of Meaning (We're meeting on Monday) Labor Day Brunch!

What is the meaning of a Waffle?

We are working through Chapter 3 of “We Make the Road by Walking” which is entitled, “A World of Meaning”. In a lot of ways it is a challenge to us to look for or examine the logic, meaning, patterns and wisdom in our lives. We’ll be reading from the first chapter of the Gospel of John.
We'll meet at the Marathon in Saluda on Monday morning at 10:30 and go to the Waffle House in Columbus for brunch/discussion/worship.