What will be your 101? Keep completing this sentence starter “United Church can …” How are you identifying as a disciple, a follower of Jesus, one who knows about Jesus and seeks to be like Jesus, being active in the transforming of our world.? As communities of faith have celebrated the first one hundred years of the United Church, and many will do at events through the summer, now we are in our 101st year, what are your 101 commitments? As an individual, as a community of faith, as people of faith reaching beyond your walls? We think of “101” often as the basics, the foundations what we need to know. How is that being lived out in your faithful presence in your context.
Beside my name and pronouns on my zoom profile it says UCCAN. I do this to indicate United Church of Canada as UCC can be confused with United Church of Christ when among other faith groups. On a call this week, in which I was the only one from Canada and our denomination, a participant asked me if we ever used it as “United Church can…” Keep coming up with all the ways you do complete the sentence. “United Church can…and in what new ways? Invite your congregation, users of your building, neighbours, family, friends, coworkers, local faith groups, through your social media, to finish the sentence. Keep learning what the United Church presence in your location is doing and might be needing. Contact me as we brainstorm ideas into actions.
