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friends, to the Presbytery of the Western Reserve web site.
| About the Presbytery of the Western Reserve... |
| Our mission in the Presbytery of the Western Reserve is to witness to the love and justice of Christ in the world and to strengthen one another for the work Christ calls us to do as individuals, congregations, and the Presbytery. | The
Presbytery of the Western Reserve, a regional governing body of
the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), serves forty-eight congregations,
one new church development, one immigrant fellowship and over 11,127
members in northeastern Ohio. Bordered by Lake Erie on the north
coast, the Presbytery includes the greater Cleveland metropolitan
area, Lorain, Ashtabula, small town and rural communities. |
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OGA News Meet Don Sinko, 2010 PWR Moderator Please
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Presbytery
Community Reflections 14 The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. We saw the glory with our own eyes, the one-of-a-kind glory, like Father, like Son, Generous inside and out, true from start to finish. (The Message) In the middle of the Sunday announcements, Dean the pastor of this urban church said to the congregation: “We have tutoring, free meals, clothing closet, job training, counseling and a social worker on hand to help our neighbors around the church with the challenges they face. What we really need are people to move into the neighborhood and share their lives on a day to day basis with their neighbors. We need friendship and modeling like family not more human services.” This neighborhood faced the same dilemma as so many others, as soon as the residents developed the skills and accumulated the means they moved out of the neighborhood so the ones left living there were more and more the dependent and struggling. Too often guilt and generosity of things become ingredients in the recipe for hand-outs and arms-length caring that lack relationship. Dean knew the visceral truth in the opening message of John’s Gospel via Eugene Peterson’s paraphrase: “The Word became flesh and blood and moved into the neighborhood.” This is what Newbigin declared when he wrote the best hermeneutic of the Gospel is a community of women and men that believes it and lives it with one another and their neighbors (in any neighborhood). ? Where has God planted your church and sent your congregation? ? How have you and your people become part of the life of the
“neighborhood”?
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