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 Is it not true that God needs human hands to wield the instruments through which healing is done, and human eyes to look in compassion on the outcast, and a human presence to stand by the lonely, and human brain-power to make deserts fertile and feed the hungry? And human political skills to fight for a joust and a humane social order? Is it not functionally true? – Collin Morris in Encountering Others (p 52)
Scripture Reading: Exodus 1:10 - 2:10
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 “It doesn't promise to solve or erase suffering but to transform it, pledging that by loving one another, even through pain, we will find more life. And it insists that by opening ourselves to strangers, the despised or frightening or unintelligible other, we will see more and more of the holy, since, without exception, all people are one body: God's.”
― Sara Miles, Take This Bread : A Radical Conversion Readings: Isaiah 56: 1-8 Mathew 15: 21-28 Heart’s Desire – by Aurora Levine Morales  Fear not, for I am with you, do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will help you, and I will uphold you with my strong right hand. – Isaiah 41:10 Readings: Matthew 14: 22-32 and Kindness – by Naomi Shihab Nye  “What I heard, and continue to hear, is a voice that can crack religious and political convictions open, that advocates for the least qualified, least official, least likely; that upsets the established order and makes a joke of certainty. It proclaims against reason that the hungry will be fed, that those cast down will be raised up, and that all things, including my own failures, are being made new. It offers food without exception to the worthy and unworthy, the screwed-up and pious, and then commands everyone to do the same. It doesn't promise to solve or erase suffering but to transform it, pledging that by loving one another, even through pain, we will find more life. And it insists that by opening ourselves to strangers,”
― Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion Readings: Isaiah 55: 1-13 and Matthew 14:13-21 |
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Rev. Louis Mitchell
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Rincon Congregational United Church of Christ
122 N Craycroft, Tucson AZ 85711 520.745.6237 Office Hours: 9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm Monday thru Friday Office E-mail: [email protected] To easily donate: 
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10:00am Sundays in the Sanctuary. We will also live-stream the worship service on our Facebook page then once completed will post to our YouTube channel. Childcare is available during the 10:00 am worship service. Children are encouraged to remain in worship with their families. Books and arts supplies are provided in a special zone of the Sanctuary. |
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