OK everybody ready?
Eyes open! Stop chewing gum! 3-2-1 SMILE!
Did the picture turn
out?
Family pictures are
always a challenge aren't they. I remember many a special meal where
we were sure the food would get cold because my dad wanted to get the
picture just right. But the pictures are important. They help us to
remember, they help keep a record of what happened, they give us a
spark to start telling the stories (and sometimes they provide
evidence to resolve disagreements about what happened).
This directory is a
snapshot of who were are in 2016. We are a different family than we
were in 2010. Some people have moved in, some have moved away. We
have all gotten older (and possibly bigger). Then next time a
directory is made we will be a different family again. But this is
who we are right now.
The people in these
pages have inherited this place from those who have gone before. We
have the task to pass this community of faith on to those who will,
one day, replace us. Who will be in the next snapshot?
In closing, I
remember the first song I learned as a member of Junior Choir. The
first verse proclaims:
The
church is not a building, the church is not a steeple
the
church is not a resting place the church is a people...
Here
in these pages we find St. Paul's United. Not all of it since no
family portrait ever gets everybody in. But the people staring back
at you as you flip the pages, and those whose pictures are missing,
that is the church. And so, whether you have been in every directory
or this is your first time, welcome to the church...
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