“We Rise” – February 25th, 2024

With Rev. Sophia preaching, the FPW Giving Committee, Michael Collins, Laura Horn, Charlyn Bethell, Guy Urban and the FPW Choir!

What does it mean to be true stewards of a community? This Sunday we will reflect on this and discern how each of us can Rise to help the good ministries of this church flourish and thrive. Come to church and be filled up by music, prayer, good friends, and the soul-nourishing voices of our choir! We really are so very blessed, aren’t we?

Reading: When Giving Is All We Have, Alberto Rios  

We give because someone gave to us. 
We give because nobody gave to us. 
 
We give because giving has changed us. 
We give because giving could have changed us. 
 
We have been better for it, 
We have been wounded by it— 
 
Giving has many faces: It is loud and quiet, 
Big, though small, diamond in wood-nails. 
 
Its story is old, the plot worn and the pages too, 
But we read this book, anyway, over and again: 
 
Giving is, first and every time, hand to hand, 
Mine to yours, yours to mine. 
 
You gave me blue and I gave you yellow. 
Together we are simple green.  
 
You gave me what you did not have, and I gave you 
What I had to give—together, we made 
Something greater from the difference.