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Message From the Pastor
Dear Friends, A Second Grade Sunday School teacher was welcoming her students to class one Sunday morning when she noticed a visitor. It was a little seven year old boy named Davey. Immediately the teacher noticed his empty sleeve. The little boy was missing his left arm. The teacher tried to be sensitive so as not to call undue attention to the little boy. She had no opportunity to prepare the other children to deal with this unexpected situation, so she proceeded nervously, hoping she wouldn’t call on the boy to do something he couldn’t do and praying that the children wouldn’t say anything to embarrass him. Usually they would circle up and hold hands to say the opening prayer, but she purposefully skipped over that. Finally, as the class time came to a close and all had gone well, she relaxed a bit and called on the children to come forward and join in their closing ceremony. “Okay, boys and girls…let’s make our churches. Here’s the church and here’s the steeple. Open the door…” With a sickening thud, it suddenly hit her. She had done the very thing she didn’t want to do. As she stood there speechless, one of the little second graders saved the day. A little girl named Karen reached over to Davey. She placed her left hand in his right and said, “It’s okay teacher. Davey and I will make the church together.” We are so blessed to have so many people who are “making the church together.” As the song says: I am the church! You are the church! We are the church together! All who follow Jesus, all around the world! Yes, we’re the church together! But I wonder, if the whole church were like me, what kind of church would we be? And if the whole church were like you, what kind of church would we be? Just wondering… Building the church together, Steve |
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Rev. Steve Spining
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305 Wasden Road - Hope Hull, Alabama - 36043 - (334) 288-3956
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