“Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on,
especially as we see the big Day approaching.”
Hebrews 10:25 (Message Translation)
Last Week’s Update…stay connected!
Logistics
Served: ~60
Last week's leaders: Bryan, Kenny
Next week's leaders: Bryan, Ruth
Next week's preacher: RUTH!!!!! Pray her up folks
Gifts
Last week: we showed up
Next week: TBD
Looking Ahead
VOX is serving this week
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Prayers please as Bryan has meeting with the pastor at Castle Church in Norwich, and the leadership team at The River of Life Church in Tolland to discuss the theology and operations of Street Church. I am also meeting with Missional New England leaders in Wooster, Ma.
Service
It was a very atypical day! Five members from the Chinese American Baptist Church joined me at Storage to help pack up. They are with us each third Saturday. Jennifer Tsai blessed me beyond measure when she simply asked how I was doing and then prayed. If you have not prayed with her, do not miss it. We had a couple of glitches with extra sandwiches and soup that came on the "wrong" day but I got off in time to meet Kenny at the Convention Center Parking. We used my truck and loaded what we needed onto the original Street Church Wagon (!) and a hand truck and schlept up the hill. Wenda met us, and Liz came out from the Library to join us too. Rob-my-girlfriend-is-an-actress came and helped, as well as a dad and his son and Br. Benson after they navigated the traffic.
We set up one table with a small cambro of coffee and one for hot chocolate along with the cross and chalice with communion which Kenny handed out to folks along with the readings. We served parade goers too, and handed them the Father's Love Letter and a wrist band.
We all had deep meaningful conversations with folks. I made plans to checks in with Zion who has been having a rough go with depression. I met a new girl whom I connected with Benson. She is living on the street and is using crack and fentynol. Great connections. Pray she gets clean
It was beautiful time, and then as we wrapped up a woman came and spoke to me through her brother and google translate and shared that her husband who was a regular with us died after a week on life support after he was struck by a car as he was walking across the street.
She handed me a note through translator but it is for you too. You are love incarnate. I will offer a brief blessing for his life next week.
She wrote;
"Pastor, thank you for such a beautiful work that you do because my husband would pass by here every time he could and I would too. He would pass by here a lot lately because he was seeking the Lord alot and wanted to do his work for the Lord.
You do a beautiful job with each and everyone of these people. May the Lord continue to bless you all the days of your life. You will never know how much love you impart to each and every one of the people and members who that come here, even if one day you never see them again"
blessings,
b
From the Community Churches
I hear lots of churches talking about being “kingdom” minded when they really mean they desire to serve alongside other churches. That is a good and right thing to do, but that is not what “kingdom” minded is about with the Lord… at least not fully.
Kingdom-minded is to have a focus on all things of the Kingdom of God and that is far more expansive than our little churches. As ambassadors of the Kingdom it is our task to bring the Kingdom to bear on all of life.
With that in mind, I headed down to the State Capital the other day to join a public rally decrying the proposed cuts to medicare, medicaid, and social security because virtual all of my sheep are cared for under these programs. We cannot let the widow to get robbed without speaking up.
I also brought the Kingdom to bear on three community churches since the last newsletter; Brookdale Clairebridge, River Ridge, and West Hartford Health and Rehabilitation. two of those were memory units and the third was a mix. I was also asked to visit and pray for residents in West Hartford Rehab Memory Care so I sat with a 101-year-old woman who is alone and an 85-year-old man who was battling severe loneliness.
Add to this a meeting with a man who is desiring to find his piece of Kingdom work and a lunch today with the pastor of Castle Church in Norwich who has invited us down to talk about Street Church, and we see a small glimpse of Kingdom expansion that is flowing out of the movement of God here through you all.
Well done Church, well done.
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