This coming Sunday is the Sunday before Great Lent and we have chosen to make it a Family and Friends Liturgy. What do we mean by this? Well it is a liturgy to which we invite all of our family and friends, and all of the enquirers and even the more distant contacts we have made so that as many people as possible will come together on one occasion and enjoy our Orthodox worship, and the fellowship in an Orthodox environment.
Many people have been invited, and we pray that the Lord would move their hearts by the Holy Spirit so that they will feel inspired to attend. My job today is to send out some personal invitations by email and post to some of those that our congregation have identified as perhaps needing that little extra nudge. It is important to do all that we can, but we will not be discouraged if only a few extra faces appear on Sunday. We have learned that the harvest is the Lord's, and we are workers WITH Him.
But do pray with us that many people will re-appear after being absent or will worship with us for the first time. Much of our missionary work is as ordinary as an invitation to a friend. But the joy when a soul visits us and decides that they want to learn more about our Faith, and even more when they are baptised and chrismated, is far from ordinary.
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