Second Sunday Ministry

The Second Sunday event is one that I am excited to see the unfolding of over the coming months, because of the amazing potential of God.

What is Second Sunday? Well, on the second Sunday of every month, a group from Christ Anglican Mission heads over to Elwyn in Vineland where residents from several area group homes dealing with developmentally challenged adults come for what could best be described as a worship service.

As people come in early, we give out snacks and lead them in a craft relating to the message. Our message this type was "Jesus was a man just like us, only without sin". The leader of the event, our own Dr. Barbara West, helped to get everyone to identify with Jesus' humanity and with the reality that even though we sin, Jesus didn't.

We sung "Jesus Loves Me" and prayed the Lord's Prayer. It was amazing listening to the innocence in their voices as they sung and prayed, you could hear their heart coming out, the excitement of it all.

I really enjoyed helping with the craft, which reinforced lesson from the month before, "Jesus is God's gift to us". We took a square of cardboard and helped them paste a bit of wrapping paper to the front of it, and put "Jesus is God's gift to" and wrote their name on it, topping it off with a bow.

It was great to help the guys that I worked with put the glue on, or encourage them doing it and to explain the concept of Jesus being a gift to each of us.

We closed with a puppet show which they loved completely, then dismissed them with a passing of the peace.

It truly was an event where God was glorified through out, where the men and women who came were shown the love of Jesus in a real hands on way, through word and action, by receiving our love and our message. I'm excited to see what will happen in the coming months as we continue with this show of Christ's love!