A Word from President Christine “Come and have breakfast…” John 21:12 |
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It was after His resurrection that Jesus came to the disciples on a sandy and rocky shore by the Sea of Galilee. Imagine Jesus cooking fish over a charcoal fire with bread warming. After Jesus had risen from the dead, he came back several times to encourage his disciples. Here, early in the morning, Jesus kneels, cooks and serves. Jesus invites the disciples with warmth and compassion, even though these disciples had sort of fallen short during Holy Week when Jesus asked for their presence and support. Actually, many of them had fled, denied Christ and went into hiding. Yet Jesus came to them and with warm bread, a crackling fire and hot breakfast, letting the disciples know that everything was okay.
Thank you to all of you have let others know that it is okay and Jesus loves them. This past Passion Week, maybe you helped with an Easter continental breakfast at church, helped set up communion and the altar, or opened your home to family and friends for the Easter dinner. Perhaps you worked lovingly on preparing and setting up for some of the first LWML Zone Rallies we have had so far this spring. The Pen-Mar Zone Rally was supposed to end at 12:00 noon on March 21. However, at 1:15pm the women were still embracing each other through conversation and planning. They were so happy to see each other after a time of not meeting. At the DCMARVA Zone gathering, time was getting short and the speaker from Lutheran Braille Workers apologized for not enough time for the group to work on Braille mailings. The group begged to be allowed to work on the LBW project, they would make time. At my table sat Mary who has MS. There she sat with a huge smile, her arms covered in stickers, waiting for her partner to get the stickers in order to close the envelopes to be mailed. As we ate at the Old Dominion Zone Rally, we all met first time attendees from New Hope, who brought their Pastor’s wife. Their excitement at being together at the zone rally, steeped in God’s goodness and love uplifted us all. What “meals” of comfort will you be preparing? LWML is here, waiting to support, nourish and equip you as you reach out in service. Jesus is waiting with breakfast, restoration and mission. He fills our nets and replenishes us with His love and presence. He reassures us that everything is going to be okay. Come to our LWML Zone Rallies, to our meetings and be fed!
AND thank you for your dedication to donating Mites.
Our 2024-2026 Mission Grants have been fully funded. To God Be All the Glory!
Christine Maconachy, President,
LWML Chesapeake District
“For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.”
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