That Post Where Pastor John Wears a Funny Hat

So let us not grow weary in doing what is right. Galatians 6:9

Watchword for the Week of July 3, 2016 from 

The Moravian Daily Texts

It's the middle. The middle of the week. The middle of the summer. The middle of the NYC Mission Trip. Isn't the middle of anything the hardest time to sustain enthusiasm? The newness of a situation might have worn off, but the end is not yet in sight. The middle is where a thought like Galatians 6:9 comes in quite handy. Let us not grow weary in doing what is right.

Good humor is one way to beat the middle. 

Keeping at it diligently is another.

While we pray for and cheer on our Mission Team--The Twenty--to make it over the hump without too much of a slump, maybe we should consider some of our own mission commitments closer to home. One thing all of the T-County Moravian Churches share in is a food delivery service in conjunction with the Greater Dover-New Philadelphia Food Pantry. We take turns making sure that those who cannot physically make it to the Food Pantry to obtain needed groceries do not go without. It is a ministry of deep compassion, and many recipients have come to depend on this weekly accommodation. 

In the beginning, we jumped in with both feet and a lot of vigor. Volunteers were plentiful and passionate. But now that the program has been around for awhile, we've lost a little bit of our verve. Here in the middle, maybe we have succumbed to weariness in doing what is right. Is it time to push through that wall of human nature and collectively recommit to this task our churches have been called to? 

Interested? Speak with the OMMC representative or the pastor in your local Ohio Moravian congregation? Or contact me via moravianpastorchris@gmail.com and I'll help you get connected. 

As we offer prayers for The Twenty today, let's also pray for ourselves. As someone once said, "Either you are a missionary, or you need one."