Called to Be Community on the Journey
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Worship Theme for 2016-2017:
Called to be Community on the Journey
Called to be Community on the Journey is our overarching worship theme for this year. It invites us to ponder and reflect on questions that shape and form our spiritual path and journey of faith:
- What is my calling? What is our calling as a church and a community of faith?
- What does it mean to be Community? Is it possible to disagree and continue to be a part of community with those with whom we disagree? What does it mean to me to be a part of this community of faith? What do I offer this community? What does this community offer me? What does this community, including me, offer the larger Langley community; the world community?
- We are a community in transition, moving from what was to what is yet to be. On this journey form yesterday towards tomorrow, where do we seem to be headed? Are we going in circles, are we stuck, are we trying to return to what used to be, to what is familiar; or are we boldly stepping into the unknown future? In the midst of this journey, where is God?
Called to be Community on the Journey includes key spiritual elements: grace,
transition, acceptance/inclusion, action/response, forgiveness; and key elements of life and living: beginnings and endings, transitions, and interdependence within community. Called to be Community on a Journey invites us to be sojourners and pilgrims; people of faith seeking to follow the spiritual path that brings compassion, hope, healing and justice within our community and to the larger world community of which we are a part.
This theme was created through the hard work and creative effort of the Visioning Team that included: Sharon Prindle-Collins, Sylvia Mountain, Elaine Pokorny, Margaret Rowell and Rev. Dr. Dale Johnson.
Our new theme is reflected in the hymn Bless Now, O God, the Journey (VU 633) and in the refrain of the hymn Walk with Me (VU 649).