As we resume our Stewardship worship series – Together for Joy, we look at all the ways we have found “new songs” to sing over the last couple of years: online and now hybrid worship, virtual choir, creative ways of continuing to serve the community through our food programs, serving the vulnerable and isolated, speaking out for justice through education and action and so much more. This is who we are, and who we’ll continue to be and become.

Now more than ever, we need to reach out and lift each other up. Now more than ever, we need to find new ways to be “together for joy.” Now more than ever, we need to be the church! The church was made for times such as these: not times of ease and tranquility, but times of difficulty and struggle. Not a stroll along a sunlit ridgeline, but a pilgrimage through the valley of the shadow of death. And not a whimper or a whisper of silence, but a new song sung out loud, in harmony with all creation, as the seas roar and hills sing together for joy!