Welcome to another week!
Fallowfield United Methodist Church’s Crawford County Fair spending committee met on Tuesday, September 30. The committee donated the net profits of this year’s fair to 75 local, national, and international charities. Most of the donations go directly to missionaries and Christian organizations. We praise God for the ability to give to the needy through this annual project.
Kennard United Methodist Church will host its monthly breakfast at 8 a.m. on Saturday, October 11. I hope you can come support the church and enjoy a yummy cooked breakfast.
October 5 was World Communion Sunday. Churches around the world honor the Lord’s Last Supper by sharing the body and blood of Christ.
How can we eat the body and blood of our Lord? Does this idea sound weird to you? It did to the disciples and early followers of Jesus.
We don’t actually eat Jesus’ body and blood. We eat bread and, in the Protestant Church, drink juice and or wine. Catholics use wine to represent Jesus’ blood. Communion is symbolic of Jesus sacrificing himself, his body and his blood to pay for our sins.
Luke 22:19-20 reads, “And he [Jesus] took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.’
In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you” (NIV).
Many of Jesus’ followers turned away from him after he told them, “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day” (John 6:54 NIV).
They couldn’t understand or accept what he was saying. From a human perspective it makes absolutely no sense. But once you understand that Jesus gave his life for ours it is only right to honor him by sharing in the supper he created. This is what Christians around the world did last Sunday.
I hope you have the chance to celebrate communion soon.
Have a wonderful week. Blessings!