Weekly Update - september 30, 2021

Once upon a time...

These four words have a magical power. Around the world they compel readers to open their hearts and minds, to meet new characters, and be whisked away to a new land with a new history and a storyline that draws us in. These four words usually begin epic tales of adventure, love, conflict, drama, or tales of prophetic learning that changes the way we think.

Scripture is no different. It begins with epic words as well… “In the beginning." Scripture takes its students on a journey of adventure, conflict, drama, wisdom, learning, all in a longer plot line of a love triangle: Creator, Son, Holy Spirit, with humanity as the center. These stories set the scene for OUR stories – the stories we live as the continuation of God’s story of love written for the world to read. Last week, we ended our "The Stories We Live: The Characters" series realizing David, and YOU, are the true love interests in the greatest story of all time where God is the protagonist. We asked you to consider how you are writing your STORIES with God in this love relationship into which God has invited you.

This week we start a new sermon series where you will begin to think through, write, and pray over your response, or MY STORIES.

Through Life Together groups, personal reflection, and in worship we will consider the experiences we have lived through: good, bad, and in-between, through the lens of God’s love.

We will use the structure of how God has moved us FROM, THROUGH, and TO to gain an understanding of ourselves, our purposes, our relationships with others, and most importantly our relationship with God. To help us see those movements in someone else’s life, we will begin with another famous story with an epic opening...

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Update from the Staff Parish Relations Committee:

Our staff is changing and we wanted to inform our congregation. Dawn Fleming, lifelong St. Luker, has served as the Director and then Executive Director level for the last ten years. She has helped elevate our branding, streamline our processes and procedures for the various ministries and their leaders, and has helped us ensure we have had excellent, vision-led communication throughout some very difficult times for St. Luke’s such as the transition of Lead Pastor, General Conference, and this pandemic. Dawn will be leaving the staff on October 1. We are so grateful for all she has done for St. Luke’s to raise our level of communication, our core values, and the essence of who we are, ensuring there has been a cohesive look and voice for our congregation and community. We wish her the best in her next chapter and support her in every way.

To continue to be good stewards of your generous tithes and offerings, we have made the decision to not refill this position at the Executive Director level. We will be opening a position at the director level of our organization to support our marketing staff, which will be under the supvervision and leadership of Scooter Leonard, Executive Director of Administration.

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The church has published our annual list of St. Lukers we have been unable to contact. Please review the list by clicking here and reach out to anyone you know asking them to contact Linda Shankle, St. Luke’s Membership Secretary, at 407.876.4991 ext. 222 to update their contact information or membership status.

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