Many thanks to Rev. George Porter for leading worship and sharing his message, “Where Do We Go Now? Our Way”. Our way, it turns out, is to answer God’s call to love and serve our fellow human beings. It was underlined by the songs we sang (“Here I Am, Lord”, “Joy to the World”, and “Christ the Lord is Risen Today”), the scripture we heard from Isaiah (told by Jane Cammel) and Luke (told via video by Tom Boomershine), and music from Joe Severyn and Charis Weible (“Amazing Grace”, “I Surrender All”). If you want to experience it again or for the first time, click HERE for the Grace Church Dayton channel of YouTube.
Thanks also go to Amelia Boomershine for leading the Sabbath Study. On Sunday, we tackled the painful history of the MIddle Passage. Next week, the topic will be Chattel Slavery. You can see that this study is difficult to undertake, and Amelia is using many different media to help us confront our history. One was an extremely moving portrayal of a freed slave named Olaudah Equiano by actor Jyuddah Jaymes. The link is HERE.
