Sunday’s thoughts for the sermon for Sunday, November 12th
“A Time To Live”
We have a large population of older adults in our congregation. We have made the commitment to bring as many people as possible to church on Sunday morning. We have refitted our church van, we have organized cars to follow and drivers who volunteer to be sure older members of our church and older people in our community can get to church if they wish to come.That is probably the fastest growing population in our church because the ones who are coming are inviting other people. We began with five or six people. Now, on a regular basis, we bring as many as 20 to church every Sunday. They have enriched our church life in many ways. They share their wisdom and their perspectives on living. They are humorous and delightful and bring so much to our church when they can be here. Robert Raines has this to say:“While the challenge of creative aging faces us all along the adult life cycle, it becomes pressing as we approach the later years. The good new is that, because of increasing longevity, there is an elder season, which may begin around seventy or later, and continue through the rest of our lives. Specific age parameters are necessarily imprecise, because the sense of where people are in the age span is shifting and not settled. What matters is to locate one’s self within the journey and engage its tasks.” How do we locate ourselves on the journey?How do we engage its tasks? Sunday we are going to explore those two questions. Those questions are relevant to all of us regardless of our age. If you have thoughts you would like other people to see respond to “comments” at the bottom of this page. If you would like to send a message to me directly write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net I look forward to your responses Charles
We have a large population of older adults in our congregation. We have made the commitment to bring as many people as possible to church on Sunday morning. We have refitted our church van, we have organized cars to follow and drivers who volunteer to be sure older members of our church and older people in our community can get to church if they wish to come.That is probably the fastest growing population in our church because the ones who are coming are inviting other people. We began with five or six people. Now, on a regular basis, we bring as many as 20 to church every Sunday. They have enriched our church life in many ways. They share their wisdom and their perspectives on living. They are humorous and delightful and bring so much to our church when they can be here. Robert Raines has this to say:“While the challenge of creative aging faces us all along the adult life cycle, it becomes pressing as we approach the later years. The good new is that, because of increasing longevity, there is an elder season, which may begin around seventy or later, and continue through the rest of our lives. Specific age parameters are necessarily imprecise, because the sense of where people are in the age span is shifting and not settled. What matters is to locate one’s self within the journey and engage its tasks.” How do we locate ourselves on the journey?How do we engage its tasks? Sunday we are going to explore those two questions. Those questions are relevant to all of us regardless of our age. If you have thoughts you would like other people to see respond to “comments” at the bottom of this page. If you would like to send a message to me directly write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net I look forward to your responses Charles
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