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Dear friends:
A couple of weeks ago, at a Presbytery meeting here in Charlotte, I was officially received as a member, which allowed me to begin this work with you. At that meeting, I bumped into a long-time friend of mine, a pastor here in town whose ministry I greatly admire. After greeting each other, he said to me, “Thank you for coming to serve the church of my childhood.”
If I knew he had grown up at Covenant, I had long forgotten it, but the way he said it made it clear to me that he has great love and devotion for this place. And in that moment, something became very clear to me. I wasn’t just coming to Charlotte to take a job, I was coming to serve in a community which is sacred to someone that I care about, a friend, therefore, this community is already sacred to me.
My hope is that it is sacred to you, too, and that your affection for this place and the church family which gathers here will guide your commitments to it. As I hope you know by now, we will be invited to present the pledges of our financial commitment to support the mission and ministry of the church on Sunday. This gives us an opportunity to offer a tangible expression of devotion to the work God has given us to do.
Additionally, the various CIC (Covenant Impacts Charlotte) volunteer options allow us to engage in real work on behalf of our neighbors, another tangible expression of our desire to invest ourselves in the work of healing the world.
On Sunday morning, I am hoping to give you a new way of thinking about how we anchor our lives in the God who is at work among us. I hope you will join your church family in worship, as we invest ourselves in the holy work that shapes our life together.
Grace and peace,
Ed
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