Community Breakfast

Our annual Community Breakfast is happening this Sunday (9:00-11:30am). This is a free breakfast open to everyone who wants to come (freewill donations to Canadian Foodgrains Bank towards relief in Malawi will be accepted if you choose to give). It's simply a time to relax with friends and community and enjoy a good meal together. There will be activities for the kids (including bouncy castles!) and a very short programme for the adults at 10:15 (approx. 15 minutes). Please join us if you can!

Following our theme of "Paul: Man With a Mission," the programme for the adults will incude a brief reflection on Paul's visit to Athens where he found countless little shrines to countless little gods (Acts 17). His message to the Athenians? You're getting pulled in 50 different directions, pursuing all of these little things you see as being good, but you're missing out on the one thing that is best, i.e. a relationship with the one true God of the universe. People were running around trying to appease the gods through their good works and religion, but Paul reminds them that the Creator of all things doesn't actually need anything made by human hands. Human hands were made to reach out to Him, the One we need more than anyone or anything else.

Seems to me that we have a lot in common with the ancient Athenians. We too are running around after many little things that seem to be good at the expense of the things that are best: families are spending less and less time together as school and kids activities take up more and more time; children are missing unstructured play time, one of the most vital things for overall healthy development; career and increased family earnings have become more and more important as we seek to indulge our desire for more; and the list goes on.

Fortunately, God is not an extra item that needs to be added to an already busy schedule. He wants to be at the centre of every aspect of our lives. Yes, the church has programmes and events that we can get involved with, and yes, there are things like Bible reading and prayer that can take up some of our time. But these are not things we do in order to check them off the "To do" list (or they shouldn't be). These are things that help us get in postion to grow in the knowledge and experience of the love and power of Jesus in all things.

In any case, I hope you can find some time to be with us on Sunday for breakfast. Hope to see you there!