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With hours remaining in the year, time comes to reflect upon the journey of the past 12 months, and to contemplate the year ahead. Not one to make "resolutions", I appreciate the importance of dwelling for reflection on the last year.
Our journey as a church community has taken some important steps forward...
Always tentative, though knowing we could not continue with the way things were, it took significant courage to adopt a new name, a new constitution, and to continue in perseverance with the things we had begun. The promise which came to us as a community early in 2003 as we studied Ezekiel: "things shall not remain as they are" (21:26) has continued to encourage us as we have stretched ourselves in new directions. We end the year with a renewed sense of encouragement, with new foundations on which to build as we enter 2005.
We are thankful for the growing bonds with our local community, and for the relationship we share with Bharoshaphur in Bangladesh. It is a privilege to support chaplaincy ministry into the Royal Childrens Hospital, and in other areas. It is our ongoing prayer that God will use us in our groping and tentative endeavours to serve him as 21st century people.
May the New Year be filled with the very best that God can give.
Posted by gary at December 31, 2004 05:17 PM
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