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St. Jude’s Mission Action Plan. All are encouraged to attend! The Third Consultation: “Fullness of Life in the Neighbourhood” session will be on March 24th after the 10:30 am worship service.
What is God calling us to as the church? We gather in faith communities to be formed in the Way of Jesus and to “practice” and embed new ways of being with one another; loving, forgiving, and affirming each other as we experience the transformative unconditional love of God. We gather, too, to express our gratitude and praise to God for the constancy and wonder of that breathtaking and redemptive love, and to lift up together our needs and the needs of the world to God. But we are also called to love our neighbours…to be an embodied witness to that love in the neighbourhoods in which our faith communities are planted. William Temple, former Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury reminds us “The Church is the only institution that exists primarily for the benefit of those who are not its members.”
What does that look like – to be an incarnate witness to God’s love in our own neighbourhoods? It is expressed in our desire for everyone in our neighbourhood to experience God’s fullness of life…a life marked by justice, equity, and restored relationships where brokenness is acknowledged and redeemed into wholeness. A foundational piece for us of this fullness is the recognition that God is already at work in our neighbourhoods bringing about the kingdom. It’s not our job to bring God to the neighbourhood; it’s our call to look for signs of God’s work and to come alongside that work and the people already doing that work.
The third consultation in our Mission Action Plan process will gather on Sunday, March 24, 12:30PM, in the Victoria Hall.
The Pre-gathering Snapshot Tool can be found here. 3 NeighbourhoodSnapshotTool.pdf Please use this tool to assist you in thinking about our current practice in relation to neighbourly engagement.