Round 2

It's been a few days already since our research and leadership team for our vision discernment process had its second official meeting, but I haven't had a chance to blog it here yet.

We dealt with two main topics. I'll handle the first one now and then pick up the second one in another post.

(1) We spent most of our two-hour meeting talking about the prayer support that guides and undergirds this whole process, focusing especially on ways to involve the whole congregation. Pastor Angie began by telling us about the prayer vigil that she and others had begun putting together, and then we latched onto the idea of capturing the spirit of that vigil in a Sunday morning worship service for everybody.

What we're planning now - and I'm very excited about this - is a prayer service for Sunday morning June 22 at all of our four worship services. Angie, Linsey, Brad, and I are working on putting together a service of prayer, Scripture, and music that will hopefully facilitate us opening our hearts before God and putting us in a spiritual posture of listening and openness.

For any readers of this blog who are connected to First Lutheran (and I'm guessing that's most of you), don't miss worship on June 22. It's going to be an important moment in the life of our church. I can't wait!