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Palm Sunday brings all the feels.
The sense of wild joy that greets Jesus as he enters the gates of the city is a feeling we know. When a team we hope will win enters the stadium the crowd goes wild. When a political candidate who embodies our values wins an election we feel the power of joining our hopes with others in order to build a better world. When hope feels - finally! - near, our hearts can scarce contain the power of it.
We dare to dream. We shout and we dance and we participate in the contagion of hope.
And then.
Do you remember that old advertising bit about "The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat"?
Jesus enters the gates of the city knowing full well that the thrill will be replaced with agony. He rides in anyway.
Please join us for worship on Palm Sunday at 10:00 in the sanctuary.
Being willing to feel all the feels is a reminder that Jesus rides yet into places of power with a message of hope for the hope-starved.
As followers of the Way of peace and reconciliation, we join Jesus in the midst of it all.
One of the ways we United Methodists have been in the midst of it all is through working for a denomination that welcomes and affirms all. Our polity is based on a global model of decision-making. Our next General Conference will be April 23 - May 3 in Charlotte, North Carolina. After being twice postponed, this conference is dense with important decisions about the future of the church.
Our bishop and cabinet have stated that regardless of the decisions made at the General Conference the Vision Statement of the Minnesota Annual Conference will guide our future together: We are a conference committed to full inclusion of all people: Thus it is and shall be.
All people are invited to the gathering sponsored by the Reconciling Congregations of Minnesota (Hennepin is one of them!). Our delegates will explain the work before them and offer opportunity for questions and insights.
Come and share potluck and community as we celebrate our connection.
Pastor Elizabeth
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