As we embrace the warmth of upcoming summer days, join us in commemorating our rich history and exploring the exciting future of our beloved congregation!
We have made it through the winter and summer is in sight, along with the end of the school year. May is a good time for looking back and looking forward. We have plenty of reason for each at St. Matthew this May.
Looking back, we are celebrating 75 years of ministry this month. An congregational anniversary is not just about looking at the different buildings and building programs over the years. It is a litany of the ways that God has been at work in people’s lives in the Moorestown area for several decades. It is a time to remember the transforming grace that God has brought to this community through St. Matthew as well as the numerous people who have received that personal word of grace and forgiveness and responded to it in faith. As we celebrate 75 years on May 4, may we remembering all of the ways that St. Matthew has been a gathering place for disciples to strengthen their understanding of God’s work in their lives.
Looking forward, we continue to dream of what God may yet do through this congregation. While the new addition will not be completed this month, it is beginning to take shape. The outer parts are beginning to take on a completed look, and so we can begin to imagine how the new space will become part of the congregation. We also celebrate first communion this month, a time of excitement as children take a step forward in claiming for themselves the baptismal promises made to them. We can further imagine what other ways God might call this congregation to speak words of hope into a world desperately longing to hear them.
Even as we look forward to summer rest, we can remember that God remains good, and God continues to call us forth to follow in faith. Let us this month remember and listen, that after some rest we can begin to plan and act through the leading of the Holy Spirit, ever open to the always new and living Word of God.
—Pastor Eric