Christ has no body but YOURS…
Where do you fit at FPCG?
Many schools now teach students the value of giving back by requiring them to spend so many hours in community service.
What a wonderful concept! It teaches not simply the importance of giving or sharing of oneself but also of volunteering. Unfortunately too many young people and adults are focused on satisfying their own needs. They guard their time and their resources for things that will bring them pleasure or satisfaction.
Imagine what our communities would be like if more people were willing to give of themselves, sharing their skills and gifts.
Even more, imagine what our church would be like if more of our members, like YOU, would give of yourselves, sharing your skills and gifts.
My friends there is something for everyone to do: Sing in a choir, join a committee, work outside in the garden area, volunteer in the office, help with property maintenance, teach a Sunday School class or sit with our young children during worship . . . The list goes on and on!Where do YOU fit into our church's ministry and mission?
The church is a volunteer organization. Yes, we do have a staff but the staff are not the church . . . the people are the church . . . YOU are The First Presbyterian Church in Germantown.
Ask yourself, ―How am I supporting the ministry and mission of FPCG?
In the 1500's Teresa of Avila wrote this:
Christ has no body but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks Compassion on this world,
Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good,
Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.
Yours are the hands, yours are the feet,
Yours are the eyes, you are his body.
Christ has no body now but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks compassion on this world.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours.
I hope to see you in church both at worship and during the week participating and supporting our ministry and mission.
-Rev Nancy