Today's sermon is on serving God and the church with your Presence.
The best compliment you can give a friend is, “you’ve always been there for me.” Think about it. During the hardest moments of your life, you probably don’t remember the things your friends said to you quite so vividly as you remember them simply being there. Sometimes the best ministry you can provide is a hand to hold, a shoulder to cry on, an ear to bend.
Your church attendance matters, too! People in the church look to you in order to see what it means to be a church member. You are a role model. In the military, if you don’t show up you are considered AWOL (absent without leave), and even called a deserter. Don’t be AWOL from the life of your church. You are needed here.
As a Lenten discipline, you can improve your personal ministry of presence in many ways.
• Vow to attend church every Sunday during Lent.
• Make one caring phone call a day to someone in our congregation. Or even to someone you wish would join!
• Send a caring card to someone who is sick, suffering, lonely or sad.
• Send notes of encouragement to our college and high school students.
• Visit someone in the nursing home.
• Come by the church office during the week to visit and encourage Kathy and Pastor Willie.
• Send someone a text message letting them know you care for them.
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