Happy Anniversary, Resurrection MCC! This past Sunday we celebrated 54 years of being a Houston community of faith that started in 1972 when a small circle of believers first gathered in apartments and a converted bicycle shop. We have grown through the years and faced many challenges along the way. Whether you have been on the RMCC journey of growth and challenges for decades, or for a shorter time, we say thank you!
Anniversaries are a time to celebrate accomplishments and changes, and to recognize impacts made. A time to acknowledge that RMCC has, and is, changing lives, making love visible, creating safe spaces, enabling connections and community, and allowing our people to practice peace.
We want to thank Dominique Williams for taking the lead on organizing our anniversary festival last Sunday; she and all of the volunteers did a wonderful job! The Activities Building was filled with craft vendors, a petting zoo, pet adoption opportunities, and food! A perfect reflection of community for RMCC.
The Anniversary weekend is also known to be a time of extra giving. Past practice has been to request an additional gift in the amount of a multiple of the year of the anniversary….i.e. $54, or $108, or $162, or $540, or $5,400! The Anniversary campaign will be available until May 15th, You can give via our text giving option, by mailing a check to the church, or placing a donation in the service collections.
Also in the Sunday service the highlighted Scripture was Ephesians 2: 12-22 read by our Deacon Christine DeJohn. Visiting Reverend Shirley Knight tied the reading to a core value of RMCC.
Ephesians 2 is believed to have been written by Apostle Paul while he was in a Rome prison, around 62 AD. He addressed his writing to people who were outsiders and strangers, and not part of the mainstream; they were Gentiles in a Jewish culture located in what we now know as Turkey. Paul reminded people that, like RMCC, Jesus reached out to everyone and welcomed all seekers. Instead of focusing on cultural rules and accepted practices, he emphasized just two commandments: love God and love your neighbor. He conveyed that Jesus reached across divisions in hopes of creating one humanity instead of the two. He wanted people to reconcile and understand that they were united together in the same cornerstone, Jesus Christ, which is a guiding principle of Resurrection MCC.
Blessings,
Robert Amidon
Board of Director