our actions reveal God's kingdom to others

Continued from page 2 healing to people we don’t know who are hurting and to work for justice and peace and to respect the dignity of every human being.

We are called to come alongside people, who for whatever unique and serious reasons, do not enter the doors of our church sanctuaries.

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Bishop, Archbishop Greg KerrWilson, now serving in Calgary, outlined four areas of weakness discerned in the activity and worship of parishes within the Qu’Appelle Diocese when he was the incumbent bishop there.

These key areas or “Pillars” of Church life are often weak points in Canadian Anglican parishes: 1) engaging and lively worship 2) stewardship 3) small group ministry and 4) outreach.

With numerous congregations, other clergy and I took the five Marks of Mission

It and graphed them with the four pillars of the Church and asked parish members to come up with some ideas for the various areas.

It is good to sift through the resulting ideas and to decide on two to three ongoing plans and two or three one-off events.

After the first year, the congregation can evaluate what they have done and how God was with them in their work together.

Now more than any other time in history, the Church is called to do works of compassion and justice. God cares about those who are suffering and downtrodden.

We need only reflect upon the words of the prophets Joel, Isaiah and Jeremiah to be reminded of the necessary work of proclaiming God’s love and mercy. We can pray with Jesus’ own mission statement in Luke 4, which echoes Isaiah’s mission in chapter 61:1, “God … has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the