Monday, May 28, 2007

Memorial of Lights


Our church does the coolest community outreach event on the Sunday night of Memorial Day weekend. We have a Memorial of Lights in the church. For a few weeks before Memorial Day weekend, we place white bags and markers at various businesses around the community. People can take a bag and decorate it with the name of a loved one who has died. Some people really get creative with them! Then on Sunday night, we meet at the central park in our town. We have a prayer and worship service, then turn all the bags into beautiful luminaries. Around 8:00, once the sun starts going down, the bags create a gorgeous display of light. People from the community come through to find the bags with their loved ones names on it, and many from our church and other churches in the area come to pray. It takes some work to get it all set up, but all of us involved in it consider it a labor of love. It really is a meaningful service to our community.

1 comment:

Lila said...

Isn't it great to see the community coming together for such a time as this. It's not about denomination. It's about real people with real hurts and real people who care enough to help them through their hurts.

John 21:15 ... do you truly love me more than these?" "Yes, Lord," he said, "you know that I love you."

Jesus said, "Feed my lambs."