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What Concern is That?

Where You Are: Embracing the Familiar

Second Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C

Where is our mission field? That’s the question behind this week’s theme for Ordinary Time. And the quick answer is, right where you are.

This Ordinary Time, you are invited to look at where you are – as individuals and as a community. We want to do that in two parts. We begin with what is familiar, what we see every day, and what we do week by week—the familiar, and maybe the over-familiar. We need to look at what we’ve seen so much that we don’t see it anymore. But we need to look; we need to see because this is where we are.

Abbreviations:

  • UMH: The United Methodist Hymnal
  • TFWS: The Faith We Sing
  • W&S: Worship and Song

Music Notes

Worship this week opens us to the needs that surround us. We aren’t neglecting our membership when we do this, because we are a part of the world we are examining. And we are supplying a mission focus to our discipleship as we gather for worship. Here is a chance to hear from the leaders of that focus and the volunteers who provide the labor and to hear the stories of the impact on the community.

  • We Are All One in Mission TFWS 2243
  • We Are the Church UMH 558
  • Help Us Accept Each Other UMH 560
  • As a Fire is Meant for Burning TFWS 2237
  • We Meet You, O Christ UMH 257
  • Lift Every Voice and Sing UMH 519
  • Make Us One TFWS 2224