4th Sundays
Worship in Action | Fourth Sunday
April 28, 2024
Fourth Sundays provides dynamic connection with one another as we work together with our hands, hearts, and minds. We begin our time with a gathering in main space and an invitation to our various stations to engage in "worship in action." This month we are excited to provide these ways of engagement in loving our neighbors. Each of these are for all ages:
Hefty Sack Lunches for ICS (Immanuel Community Services)
Brunch Boxes for South Lake Union House (residency for people receiving treatment at Fred Hutch)
Hot Lunch for residents who live at St. Martin's on Westlake
Blanketmaking for residents at True Hope Village
Care Kits for SYM and for those who are unsheltered
Flower planting to brighten our neighborhood
Spring cleaning in our building (to honor our many guests)
Notes of encouragement
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So let’s go outside, where Jesus is, where the action is—not trying to be privileged insiders, but taking our share in the abuse of Jesus. This “insider world” is not our home. We have our eyes peeled for the City about to come...Make sure you don’t take things for granted and go slack in working for the common good; share what you have with others. God takes particular pleasure in acts of worship—a different kind of “sacrifice”—that take place in kitchen and workplace and on the streets. (Hebrews 13, The Message)
WOrship in Action from home
Grab the Sunday paper or your phone and your Bible, read a couple of Psalms, then a news story. From a space Informed by the psalms you read, pray for the story.
Perhaps this is a Sunday when you need time at home and in your neighborhood to rest, reach out to a neighbor, take a walk in nature, garden, write a letter, create. We would love to hear your ideas of how you’ve discovered ways to worship in action. .
I John 4:7-21.
Read this three times.
1) What is a word or phrase that catches your attention?
2) What is an emotion that this passage stirs within you? What is God revealing as you sit with this emotion?
3) What is an invitation or prayer for you as you receive this passage?
Fourth Sundays, Worship in Action, are an invitation to live and worship with imagination and hope, providing a way for us to come alongside our neighbors in South Lake Union, in our individual neighborhoods, and beyond. They are ever-expansive, and we hope that you can live into worship in action holistically, as a whole person, loving God and neighbor as yourself every day of the week.
“Jesus never told the world to GO to church; he told the church to go to the world.”
— Bruce Larson
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So let’s go outside, where Jesus is, where the action is—not trying to be privileged insiders, but taking our share in the abuse of Jesus. This “insider world” is not our home. We have our eyes peeled for the City about to come...Make sure you don’t take things for granted and go slack in working for the common good; share what you have with others. God takes particular pleasure in acts of worship—a different kind of “sacrifice”—that take place in kitchen and workplace and on the streets. (Hebrews 13, The Message)
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