{"id":6092,"date":"2025-07-31T16:08:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/?p=6092"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:08:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:08:32","slug":"ponderings-from-pastor-patti-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/2025\/07\/31\/ponderings-from-pastor-patti-august-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponderings from Pastor Patti &#8211; August 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, <strong><em>\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<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>It&#8217;s that time of the year again when teachers prepare their classrooms to welcome the students returning for their academic studies.\u00a0 I wonder how much imagining needs to happen for the school to become a cohesive learning center for all who enter.\u00a0 I wonder how much imagining has to happen for teachers and the students as well.\u00a0 Students need to prepare for a new year, meeting new people, getting used to a new classroom and sometimes a new daily schedule.\u00a0 And teachers prepare their room, their supplies, their resources and sometimes their support system.\u00a0 That\u2019s a lot of imagining.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if this would be a good time for us all to imagine.\u00a0 Imagine our community as life for the community.\u00a0 I wonder if you will wonder with me how we can be better stewards of the gifts we have here at First\u2026and how these gifts can benefit the community at large.<\/p>\n<p>We are called to be church in the world.\u00a0 We are called to love our neighbors as ourselves.\u00a0 So, let\u2019s imagine together what that means to us.\u00a0 Imagine how many gifts First Lutheran Church has to offer.\u00a0 Imagine how those gifts can make a difference to the community and the world.\u00a0 Imagine what we can do!\u00a0 Imagine how much God can do in and through each of us if we worked together.\u00a0 Just imagine!!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/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","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 \u00a0It&#8217;s that time of the year again when teachers prepare their classrooms to welcome 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