07/04/2023
A message for our new pastor the Rev. Tikiko Lesuma
On Sunday morning I sought you out as I had made a gift for you that I wanted to give you. At the time that I presented it to you, I was not aware of the meaning and significance of that simple loaf of bread. However, during the service as I was hanging out in the back of the sanctuary in meditative prayer, the spirit spoke to me and told me why that simple gift of homemade bread was in actuallity so much more than anyone would have ever thought.
I gifted you that nicely wrapped homemade bread that I had created with my own 2 hands (with God gave me) with loving care. This bread was a symbol of the body of Crist Jesus, a symbol that he gave to all of us at the Last Supper. As soon as he said that it represented his body which he would give up for all human so that when the judgement day came, it would save them all. From this moment on the bread cessed to be just a simple loaf of bread and became the imbodiment of Jesus. This lowly loaf of bread was my offerinng to you not only the symbol of communion, but it was at that time and place the offering to you the body of not just me, but the whole of the congergation of Faith United Methodist Church. In the giving of this simple loaf of bread I unknowingly bound you to this church family...this living, breathing body of Christ.The congergation has welcomed you into its fold and wants to share ideas and learn from you and together we can grow this body of faith, as the soil in which you are about to sow these seeds is very fertile and ready to enfold and nurture these seeds of hope and faith and growth and to make sure that those seeds of thought turn into seedlings of hope.
