Tent City Meal Prep. and Serve -- Sunday, May 18 3:00 p.m . While Tent City is at St. Mark's Cathedral, we have signed up to make and serve a meal for the residents. Join us on Sunday at St. Mark's at 3:00 pm! Service projects are a great way to live out your faith in a concrete manner, and a great way to get to know some other students!
Weekly Offering at Worship -- Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m . Each month the community chooses a different recipient of our worship offering. For Winter Quarter 2008, we collected for Episcopal Relief and Develpment to purchase mosquito netting to help eradicate Malaria --we collected enough for 23 nets! You're awesome! Great job!
For April we're collecting for the Refugee Resettlement Center provides micro-lending services through the JumpStart Fund. They provide: Micro-loans, Riba Free Loans for Muslim Clients, Business Counseling, a referral system that introduces clients to other specialized assistance agencies, one-on-one technical assistance to develop business plans and financial projections,
assistance in completing loan applications, post-loan technical assistance to monitor the status of the borrower's loan and business progress. (email your ideas for future offering recipients to Pastor Scott.)
Crossroads is committed to the mission of bringing about the Reign of God here among God's beloved people on earth. At the heart of the mission is working for social justice. Check here often as we add service and social justice ministry opportunities.
The foundation of justice is found in the very being of God. Justice is a chief attribute of God. God is always the sure defender of the poor, oppressed and the outcast.
Psalm 10:17-18 - "O Lord you will hear the desires of the meek; you will strengthen their heart, you will incline your ear to do justice for the orphan and the oppressed, so that those from the earth may strike terror no more."
God is sovereign creator of the universe. The demand of God's justice are placed upon all of God's creation. Therefore as the children of God demands are made on us to live lives of justice and peace. Going to church and offering a tithe is not enough. We must live the Good News. The book of Micah makes this very clear.
Micah 6:6-8 - "With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be please with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has told you O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with you God?"
Justice is more than doing good., it is righting wrong, loving our enemy, and loving one another no matter what. This is the radical subversive message of Jesus Christ. Jesus begins his public ministry in Galilee and Nazareth in the synagogues.
Luke 4:17-21 - "He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written: 'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.' And he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of the synagogue were fixed on him. Then he began to say to them, 'Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.'"
God's love has set us free. God's love gives all we need to participate in the unfolding of God's Kingdom.
-The Rev. Mary Shehane (Episcopal Chaplain)who are members of my family, you did it to me." - Matthew 25:40