Opening Prayers We stand before You, Holy Spirit, as we gather together in Your name. With You alone to guide us, make Yourself at home in our hearts; Teach us the way we must go and how we are to pursue it. Do not allow our weakness to promote disorder. Do not let...

Mary Beth Stein shared this prayer with the team: Holy One, for the longest time we have prayed, "Your kingdom come,"and often we have wanted it to come in a supernatural way that did not ask too much of us.  We have longed for your reign but imagined it elsewhere,...

by Frances Croake Frank Did the woman say,  When she held him for the first time in the dark of a stable, After the pain and the bleeding and the crying,  ‘This is my body, this is my blood’?  Did the woman say,  When she held him for the last time in the dark rain on...

Suggested by Ed Shreurs   Invictus Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My...

Composed by Christina Reymer for the Strategy Team meeting on 27 April 2016  We believe in God, creating all that is. We believe in Jesus Christ, incarnate Word, Conceived by the power of the Spirit , And given birth by Mary, his mother. He suffered injustice, was...

In the name of the Creator with whom we share divinity, the redeemer with whom we share humanity, and the Holy Spirit who unsettles and inspires us. God of Surprises,    you call us       from the narrowness of our traditions       to new ways of being church      ...