June 19, 2024

Does your welcome start in your neighbourhood? Outside your building? In the parking lot? Once inside your doors? Can everyone come as they are and belong, be accepted? Do we mean and really live “all are welcome.”? Imagine our growth if “all are welcome” means we all do belong and we can trust a community of faith is a safe place, to be able to be true and authentic to who we are. This week consider each person you observe or engage with as welcome at your community of faith. Keep breaking stigmas and eliminating obstacles.  Create opportunities to draw the circle wider to break barriers. How might we strengthen invitation in your community of faith and be really welcoming? Reach out to have a conversation with me, with each other, about who is at your table, who is missing, what are the gaps and voices we need to hear? How are we making sure everyone knows they are needed and valued?