We Are the Church Together

…The Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.  
Acts 2:47 [KJV]

We are freed to free others

We are affirmed to affirm others.

We are loved to love others.

We are family – we are community

We are the church triumphant:

            You, me, anyone who would come to the Lord

            Renewed, redirected, empowered,

            To change things and lives

            Together in love and wholeness.

We are the Lord’s church

            The church of justice and mercy.          

The people sent to open prisons,

            To heal the sick

            To clothe the naked

            To feed the hungry

            To reconcile

To be alleluias when there is no music

The mantle is upon our shoulders.

Joy is apparent in our living.

We have been commissioned to be

The Church of Jesus Christ.

            -Ann Weems

            Kneeling in Bethlehem