Growing Like a Garden

Our communities, our faith journey
hope in love, in living together
in growing as one, like a summer garden
fed and watered, by the depths of God’s love
healing coming, weeds removed
dry places tilled, new soil begun
growing like a garden
tended and cared for
a harvest in God’s season
all to be restored

June 28, 2011

Reverend Janet Wolf

http://www.hobsonumc.org/LeadServants/PastoralTeam.aspx

http://gbgm-umc.org/nwo/00so/ministry.html

Sermon, Hymn, Poem - June 23, 2011

http://loveontrial.org/pages/liturgy.html#wolf

Reverend Amy Delong

Love on Trial,

http://www.loveontrial.org/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Love-On-Trial/190582754298364

the case against the Reverend Amy DeLong,

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000572962166

http://www.rmnetwork.org/amy-delong/

&

John 8:1-11

&

Samuel Thompson’s

http://www.facebook.com/#!/keleayon

Inclusion Essay

shared at the New England United Methodist Church

Annual Conference

http://www.neumc.org/pages/detail/195

in response to call by Reconciling Ministries Network

http://www.rmnetwork.org/

for essays describing, “My vision for an inclusive church”,

June 10, 2011

&

in part inspired by conversations with

the Reverend John Makokha

http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=556451505

Riruta UMC

http://rirutaumc.org

http://www.rmnetwork.org/

Other Sheep Afrika-Kenya http://www.othersheep.org/OSEA_CL_Other_Sheep_Kenya.html

Children of Africa Hope Mission Project in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. http://rirutaumc.homestead.com/children_of_africa.html

&

Matthew 25:31-46

The Sheep and the Goats

&
Matthew 28:18-20

Great Commission

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