Seeing the Growth

Like more shoots, green, growing
rising up in my garden
Greater numbers
filling the pews, the sanctuary
vivid proof of the faithfulness
the servants who have toiled here
the planting, the watering
the weeding, the patience
growth coming, revealed
in its season, in due time
some would water, some would plant
God provides the growth

March 22, 2009
Suncook United Methodist Church
and its growth in attendance
Suncook, NH
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and series of poems of June 22, 2008
1 Corinthians 3:5-9
and the combined message,
“Transition”, by
Reverend Yoo Cha Yi,
Pastor Ruth Foss, Mary Ann Cioffi,
and Reverend Huntley Halvorson,
Suncook United Methodist Church,
Suncook, NH, June 22, 2008