Church & Society Committee
“Alone we can do very little, together we can do so much.”
Last week, when we outlined some of the things that SS Classes were doing as a result of the Lenten Study on Poverty, we should have listed this. The 7th and 8th Grade SS Class held a car wash to raise money for those who can’t afford to buy food. What a wonderful thing to do. Way to go, 7th and 8th Graders.
Tom Kaylor sent an article to us recently and here are some quotes from it:
“For John Wesley, holiness meant both a quality of relationship with God and a way of living in the world. The former he call “works of piety” and the latter, “works of mercy.” So Methodists have always been a people for whom living out our faith in society has been important. The very first conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America wrote into the Discipline a provision forbidding membership to those who owned slaves."
May God grant us wisdom and courage as we seek to deal with the social and justice issues of our day.
