October 16, 2024

You have six words to tell your story! Can you do it? About yourself? Your community of faith? Summarize your vision, mission or purpose in just six words! Capture why your faith is important to you in just six words! Take up the challenge and discover a new way to share with others. A tag line, a motivating sentence, a motto, a powerful but concise message. Ernest Hemmingway, in folklore is said to have been given a challenge to write a story in six words, which supposedly said “For sale, baby shoes, never worn!” That is rather compelling, don’t you think? Our call and  vision of the United Church happens to be six words: “deep spirituality, bold discipleship, daring justice.” Perhaps three words stand out, “deep, bold, daring” or “spirituality, discipleship, justice.”  Share your six words with me, or if six won’t work, whatever concise wording works. Someone in sales and promotion work, recently shared that to capture attention and engage interest, media promotions have eight seconds to make an impact, to be meaningful. What might your eight second video convey? Send me your eight second message as another way to share your story.