Beloveds, I am slowly getting into the rhythm of things and am catching up with emails and phone messages and texts, even as I continue to prepare for the upcoming 2020 General Conference of the United Methodist Church. While I have been trying to keep you informed with all that is happening, I feel it is also important that we, as a congregation, also have our own conversations and think of where we would want to be as a congregation and who would we want to align with, post May 2020.

The Gospel passage for this past Sunday was Matthew 4:12-23. Take a moment to read it before we continue. The very first sentence here is very important.

This past Sunday we looked at the story in John 1:29-42 in which John the Baptist points two of his disciples in the direction of Jesus. When Jesus notices them following, he asks, “What are you looking for?” To which they respond with another question, “Where are you staying?” Jesus tells them to “Come and see.”