From the Pastor's Desk

Advent 2009

Grace and Peace to YOU, the Saints living in Rockdale!

Advent is the perfect time for us to begin our interim ministry adventure together. Interim ministry, like Advent, is a time to pause and reflect, as well as a time to prepare for the coming of the new. Let us remember that, thankfully, we do not labor alone, but can do all things through Christ who strengthens us!

The best way to reach me is by email or by cell phone. This information is found in your new church directory. Please pick up your family's copy at the church, if you haven't already done so. You can read my reflections on our life and ministry together on my blog, Rev. Rebecca at http://revrebecca.blogspot.com/. Feel free to leave a comment if you’d like.

I look forward to our time together and to adding this Interim Ministry Process to my treasure of Rockdale memories. As the Scripture says:

I, Rebecca, servant of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Rockdale, with the elders and session members: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God every time I remember you, constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all of you, because of your sharing in the gospel from the first day until now. I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ. It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because you hold me in your heart, for all of you share in God’s grace with me, both in my living in Austin and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the compassion of Christ Jesus. And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you to determine what is best, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God. Philippians 1:1-11 (adapted)

With Joy and Thanksgiving,

Rev. Rebecca