“God’s work. Our hands.” Sunday is an opportunity to share who we are as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America – one church, freed in Christ to serve and love our neighbor. This tradition began in 2013 as the ELCA celebrated its 25th Anniversary, and it hasn’t stopped since. Click the link below for projects and items to donate. Join us for a project on Sunday and beyond. We join with nearly 9,000 other congregations to do God’s work, knowing it only takes opening our hands!
In this week’s gospel, Jesus commands the ears and mouth of a deaf-mute man to “be opened,” and in fact, this may be the take-away instruction for all of us! What does it mean for us to also “be opened”? Perhaps on this “God’s work. Our Hands.” Sunday it means that we cannot truly do God’s work with closed hands, closed hearts, or closed minds. As we serve in Christ’s name, we are opening ourselves to the work of the Spirit and sharing God’s triumphant love. As we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the ELCA’s World Hunger, we heed the words of James, “Faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.” So let us do God’s work with our hands and be opened by the Spirit!
