Dear St. Lukers,
It’s been fun to be around campus the last few weeks – between the excitement of VBS, the meaningful youth mission trips, our Tuesday food distributions even finding joy on rainy days, and this week as our kids camps bring life all over campus. What I see all around me is our core value focus for this Sunday: Community.
It’s a time of year I also see lots of memories pop up on my social media from summers past, my own camp experiences both as a camper, summer staffer, and eventually camp director. The photos that represent so much more than a single moment, but a whole week, or even months of experiences.
But those photos also represent different communities I’ve been a part of. Camps in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Florida; communities of kids, teenagers, and all ages of adults. All of them different communities I got to lead or contribute to. All of them unique in their own ways, and yet in so many ways they all embody that same concept of bringing people together to do life together for a time, all centered around Jesus.
This week’s Scripture text invites us into an interesting picture of community as well...
