Dear Friends,

Talmadge Hill Community Church is a beautiful community of faith. As your Co-Minister, this offers me both consolation and inspiration that keeps me dedicated to my ministerial call at the church.

I believe that faith is an action verb.  While most dictionaries continue to list faith as a noun, that wasn’t always true. And for us, it’s never really changed because our call to faith has never been a passive activity. Abram, the Old Testament Patriarch and the figurehead of faith for the three major monotheistic religions, started his faith with a God-inspired call “to go to the land that I will show you” (Genesis 12:1). And throughout the gospels, Jesus calls his disciples with the simple commands to follow him and “come and see.”

As we begin this new program year, I invite you to approach it with a spirit of anticipation and openness. In the words of C. S. Lewis, “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

Where might God be calling you to grow? How can you deepen your connection to this community?  What can you see? Go on a journey of self-discovery. Leave behind anything that might hold you back. And if you do, I promise you the landscape that you see and the life that you live will show you the glimpses of love, connection and hope that only an active faith can reveal.

So mark your calendars with all the exciting things that are coming and see faith as the action verb that it is, even if that action is simply showing up.  It starts there, but it is truly so much more.

I look forward to sharing the journey with you.

With love and peace,

Cheryl