Everything Outside is Broken - Poem by Raymond A. Foss

Walling off others
dying in conformity
failing the challenge
of the current age

Diversity a blessing
not everything outside is broken
we are richer
more able to serve freely
offering God’s love
to the whole world

Our commission greater
as on the day of Pentecost
speaking with power
with all the tongues of the earth

June 13, 2011
John 8
&
Samuel Thompson’s
http://www.facebook.com/#!/keleayon
Inclusion Essay
shared at the New England United Methodist Church
Annual Conference
http://www.neumc.org/pages/detail/195
in response to call by Reconciling Ministries Network
http://www.rmnetwork.org/
for essays describing, “My vision for an inclusive church”,
June 10, 2011
&
Love on Trial,
http://www.loveontrial.org/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Love-On-Trial/190582754298364
the case against the Reverend Amy DeLong,
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000572962166
which begins on June 20, 2011
http://www.rmnetwork.org/amy-delong/
&
in part inspired by conversations with
the Reverend John Makokha
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=556451505
Riruta UMC
http://rirutaumc.org
http://www.rmnetwork.org/
Other Sheep Afrika-Kenya http://www.othersheep.org/OSEA_CL_Other_Sheep_Kenya.html
Children of Africa Hope Mission Project in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. http://rirutaumc.homestead.com/children_of_africa.html
&
Matthew 25:31-46
The Sheep and the Goats
&
Matthew 28:18-20
Great Commission
&
Ephesians 3:17-20
Ephesians 3:8
Ephesians 3:1
Ephesians 1:1
Acts 2:1-8 (TEV)
Acts 2:1-11
Acts 2:1-21
Pentecost Sunday
Worship Theme: “Celebrating the Past; Hopeful for the Future”
and sermon: “Musings on 46 years and Counting”
by Reverend Huntley Halvorson
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
June 12, 2011
Pentecost Sunday

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