House-to-House
Family of Hope House Church June 2021
Staying Awake Is Hard To Do
"But make sure that you don’t get so absorbed and exhausted in taking care of all your day-by-day obligations that you lose track of the time and doze off, oblivious to God. The night is about over, dawn is about to break. Be up and awake to what God is doing!”
- Ken Peterson, Romans 13:11ff THE MESSAGE
Among the few books we had in our family library at home was one on the April 14, 1912, sinking of the Titanic, billed as the finest and most reliable ocean liner ever. I remember how horrified I was reading about the fate of all the people who wined and dined together in high style on that voyage, oblivious to the disaster that awaited them.
In a similar way we may find ourselves lulled into believing that our ship of state, the now aging republic known as the United States of America, will endure forever. We are promised it will not only manage to avoid any future decline or disaster (of the kind that all empires of the past have experienced) but will gain ever increasing greatness.
Thus in spite of the fact that both scripture and history tell us differently, we continue to trust in our broken economic and political system as though there were no tomorrow, or that our every tomorrow will be just like the present.
Followers of Jesus know better.
Notes, Prayers and Praises
WE WILL HAVE AN OUTDOOR CHURCH SERVICE at the Vlasits home at 3399 Cavers Drive, Keezletown Sunday June 6. Otherwise we continue to meet online from 4-5:30. For a phone connection dial 646-876-9923. For video: https://zoom.us/j/2849269967.
OUR CONDOLENCES AND PRAYERS for Ruth Stauffer in the recent loss of her sister, Martha Bowman, and for Donna Sacra in the loss of her mother, Anna Mae Crist. Also pray for complete healing for Donna as she faces an upcoming biopsy of some suspicious tumors in her breast.
WE PLAN TO USE THE NARRATIVE LECTIONARY TEXTS through this summer, a series of book studies as follows: May30-July 4, Jeremiah; July 11-August 1, Ephesians; and August 8-September 5, Revelation. We start with "Jeremiah, A Prophet For Distressing Times."
JUNE BIRTHDAY BLESSINGS to Josiah Dumas 6/9, and Harvey Yoder 6/30!
June Lectionary Texts
June Services, 4-5:30 pm
