{"id":6050,"date":"2025-06-28T08:31:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T13:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/?p=6050"},"modified":"2025-06-28T08:31:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T13:31:43","slug":"ponderings-from-pastor-patti-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/28\/ponderings-from-pastor-patti-july-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponderings from Pastor Patti &#8211; July 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The theme of our Synod Assembly this year was \u201cImagine!\u00a0 Imagine?\u00a0 Imagine\u2026\u201d inspired by Ephesians 3:20 \u201c<strong><em>Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Bishop Scott and workshop leaders talked about how we are one church, better together.\u00a0 That was certainly shared in the Creative Worship Ideas workshop that I attended as we all learned together some ways to share God\u2019s love in the world.\u00a0 What I loved most about Assembly is seeing colleagues that I don\u2019t get to see but twice a year and sharing our joys and disappointments with each other.\u00a0 It\u2019s a support that is unmatched in any other part of our worship lives.<\/p>\n<p>What I learned from this year (maybe it\u2019s more a reminder) is that we are all together in this mission of Sharing God\u2019s Love.\u00a0 It\u2019s by the power (of God) at work within us that makes us able to accomplish abundantly more than we can ask or imagine.\u00a0 We can comfort others, work together, help those in need, and feed the hungry by working together and letting God be our guide\u2026we can\u2019t do it alone.<\/p>\n<p>Can we imagine together?\u00a0 Can we work toward a better us?\u00a0 Let\u2019s imagine working together for the good of the community we live in.\u00a0 Let\u2019s imagine what God can do through us when we work together.\u00a0 Will you imagine with me?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 Pastor Patti<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme of our Synod Assembly this year was \u201cImagine!\u00a0 Imagine?\u00a0 Imagine\u2026\u201d inspired by Ephesians 3:20 \u201cNow to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine.\u201d \u00a0Bishop Scott and workshop leaders talked about how we are one church, better together.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8agoY-1zA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6051,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions\/6051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}