Missions Committee members helped host the Sunday coffee hour on August 2nd. To prepare cookies and scones and other goodies, several members met early on Saturday morning in the church kitchen to get baking. We also prepared a bulletin board with recent photographs of the Ecuador mission trip, the trip to Brazil and several parishioner involved missions. Everyone enjoyed the fellowship and the chance to show hospitality to the church.
Making banana bread and arranging fruit may seem like a trivial activity for mission work, but building companionship to one another in service and heartfelt giving is really at the heart of missions. Bishop Waynick once told me that the Latin root of the word companionship comes from
companio - one who eats bread with another. Serving oatmeal cookies and a cup of coffee to anyone on the church's front lawn is indeed the kind of companionship that is at the center of mission work!
Missions Committee members helped host the Sunday coffee hour on August 2nd. To prepare cookies and scones and other goodies, several members met early on Saturday morning in the church kitchen to get baking. We also prepared a bulletin board with recent photographs of the Ecuador mission trip, the trip to Brazil and several parishioner involved missions. Everyone enjoyed the fellowship and the chance to show hospitality to the church.
Making banana bread and arranging fruit may seem like a trivial activity for mission work, but building companionship to one another in service and heartfelt giving is really at the heart of missions. Bishop Waynick once told me that the Latin root of the word companionship comes from companio - one who eats bread with another. Serving oatmeal cookies and a cup of coffee to anyone on the church's front lawn is indeed the kind of companionship that is at the center of mission work!
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