A young adult ministry
Here at the office following an amazing experience. Four college-aged persons arrived unannounced at the church door, wanting a tour. They were from the Columbia, Maryland suburb, and one of the four knew about Unitarian Universalism. (Her parents had been married in a San Francisco Bay area UU church.)
They were interested and keen, especially when the talk moved from the architectural to the theological. (We have a John Murray memorial window, and I tell his landing story, with the “Not hell, but hope and courage” ancedote.)
Seems they are part of a collegiate ministry to the city, and they wanted to pray with me for the church, my ministry, “that you Father might send [me] a new word” and the city.
They were positive, affirming, and open for us to participate in the ministry to disadvantaged children in a local park. I liked these people, and they seemed to appreciate an open door.
But there’s another lesson here: connections — and especially the ecumenical contact that so many Unitarian Universalist Christians crave — will follow the same rules as the post-Constantinian church. The connections will be lateral and personal. (Not unlike this blog.)
We don’t have to wait to be welcomed by the ecumenically-assertive denominations (indeed, it may never happen) but contact may be as close as the front door.
1 September 2003 at 1:18 am
Mega-Super-Ultra-Deluxe Cul-de-Sac, Holiday Edition
Welcome to the Cul-de-Sac, my weekly public quest to see who is saying what in my corner of the blogosphere. I hope that everyone is enjoying a restful three-day break - and if you’re not, I hope you’re getting well…
1 September 2003 at 1:22 am
Mega-Super-Ultra-Deluxe Cul-de-Sac, Holiday Edition
Welcome to the Cul-de-Sac, my weekly public quest to see who is saying what in my corner of the blogosphere. I hope that everyone is enjoying a restful three-day break - and if you’re not, I hope you’re getting well…
1 September 2003 at 8:54 am
Scott!!! Didn’t know you had a blog til Kelley linked you. But doesn’t it just figure that former Demosthenians would be all over this phenomenon?
I hope you’re doing well. Yes, you need a new photo, you look a bit Amish in the one you’ve got up right now.
1 September 2003 at 10:24 am
Not Amish. Puritan.