We are kicking off the 2020/2021 season with 5 mini launches Sept. 20-October 18. Two Care Groups each Sunday are invited for in-person worship services. When your Care Group’s turn comes up, please feel free to invite your friends or neighbours. Just please let us know when you fill out the Invitation RSVP. We are looking forward to seeing you Covenant!
FAITH PRACTICES PROJECT
September always feels like new beginnings. Usually, our ministries and committees start up again after a summer’s rest, along with the new school year, sports teams and all sorts of extracurricular activities. Things look a little different this year, but one thing we can begin anew this September is our commitment to those transformational Christian practices that help us grow deeper in faith. The CRCNA’s Faith Formation ministries provides us with the
“Faith Practices Project” beginning September 2020. Each month a new set of resources are released online focusing on one of 12 faith practices. Check it out! https://www.crcna.org/FaithFormation/practices
“Faith Practices Project” beginning September 2020. Each month a new set of resources are released online focusing on one of 12 faith practices. Check it out! https://www.crcna.org/FaithFormation/practices
September
The Practice of Sabbath
The Practice of Sabbath
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September 6
In Wendell Berry and the Given Life, author Ragan Sutterfield quotes Berry: “[Sabbath] is not a break so that we might become renewed and refreshed for more work, but is rather a time when we live in the simple reality that we are creatures whose lives are given by God.” How might this insight change how you celebrate sabbath?
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September 13
“God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.” List all the things you “created” last week: work projects, meals, social media posts, family schedules, clean clothes, conversations…. Which of your creations were “very good”? Which helped others flourish? Which did not? Take some time to bring your list to God in prayer.
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September 20
In Keeping the Sabbath Wholly, Marva J. Dawn writes, “A great benefit of Sabbath keeping is that we learn to let God take care of us—not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives.” Set aside some time today to reflect on the specific ups and downs of the past week, and recognize times when you attempted to be God in your own life. Then invite God to take care of you in the sorrows and joys you and those close to you experienced during the week.
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