A Free Gift

Shameless, I know. But we have, to complement our Lenten series of reuse*renew*rejoice*resurrect, 500 awesome reusable tote bags. We plan to give one to every person who attends worship this weekend, and I want you to have one. They are beautiful. Deep green and a little larger than average reusable bags, they boast "MCC Austin: A green Church Without Walls" and our Church Without Walls logo on the side.


Whether you're participating with us in the carbon fast or not, we'd like for you to have one of these bags. They're free! A gift! No strings attached!

Which reminds me. That's pretty much what happens each time we worship together. Each time we gather as a community of faith and acknowledge God's dominion, God's love, and God's grace, we take away with us a free gift, no strings attached. So often we worship together and we leave with renewed hope and refreshed spirits. We leave reminded that God is with us and God is for us. We might have the unexplainable urge to smile at strangers, the strength to stand against adversity, an unexplainable feeling that things are somehow better, or at least the confidence that even if things are not better, we won't be facing them alone.

I hope you'll do yourself the favor of worshiping with us this weekend, either in the comfort of our Saturday @ 6:24 service or the celebration of our Sunday morning services. This weekend, as always, you'll receive many, many gifts. Most of them are on God; the bags are on us!

Always in Hope,