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Pastor Rebecca Irelan will be sharing her message

“In God the Father"

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Dear Pastors and Lay Ministers, Lay Leaders and Lay Members to ACS,

As a kid, I had a very active imagination. Thoughts of ghosts, goblins, and monsters often sent me into overdrive. Because of that, Halloween was a particularly challenging time for the adults in my life as they tried to help me manage all of the anxiety and fear that the season conjured in me. Eventually, one of my grandparents sat me down and helped me begin to understand that there were many things in life that were reasonable to feel fear and anxiety about and none of them had anything to do with werewolves, witches, or brain eating zombies. Admittedly, they took a tough love approach that might not have been entirely developmentally appropriate, but I got the message.

On this Halloween, with millions of people in our country on the verge of losing vital food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and access to affordable health insurance with the end of federal subsidies, the memory of that conversation with my grandfather is piercing.

In my short time as the District Superintendent for Great Northern, it is already apparent to me that many of our churches are already engaged in vital ministries providing food assistance in their respective communities. In some places the local church is a food distribution site working in partnership with their local food bank or other agencies, some of our churches provide hot meals to their larger community on a regular basis, others offer sack lunches. Some churches have teams of people that volunteer on a regular basis at their local food bank or a neighborhood soup kitchen. Other churches give generously to those agencies in their community doing this work. For those of you already committed to these ministries focused on addressing food insecurity in your community, thank you.

For our churches who focus on different missional priorities in their communities, I want to encourage you to prayerfully consider how you might put greater emphasis on addressing issues of food scarcity in your community in the weeks ahead. I believe this is an “all hands on deck” moment for people of compassion and good will. Let us be practical, collaborative, and generous as we discern how to meet this moment of national need in our communities. If there are specific ways you think I can be helpful and supportive of your respective efforts, don’t hesitate to reach out and let me know.

There are many things in this moment that are reasonable for us to feel fearful and anxious about, for ourselves, our neighbors, our nation, and for the world. But let us not be overcome, rather together let us meet the fear and anxiety with tangible acts of compassion, generosity, and service that give hope to our neighbors in need and the larger communities that we are a part of.

May it be so

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