Greetings to you on this President’s Day, a day to keep our President in prayer and remember that leadership comes at a price. I’ve spent the last four reflections on the core values of Evergreen, the four corners of our “Evergreen Jigsaw Puzzle”—unity, cultural diversity, acceptance and shifting perspectives. After you find the corner pieces in a traditional jigsaw puzzle, you find the edge pieces. The edge pieces in reality are mission priorities. The leaders that gathered agreed that our four mission priorities were: Building Bridges, Equipping Congregations, Sharing the Evergreen Way, and Reaching Beyond our Borders. Today, I’d like to reflect briefly on “Building Bridges.” This mission priority is taken directly from our mission statement, “we will build bridges between communities”. And we have strived since our beginning to build bridges, between churches, between caucuses, between various people groups, between ourselves and ABC, between ourselves and the neighborhoods or communities we serve. It is a mission that clearly continues to call us to not only to build bridges, but use them to interact with others and be sure they are two-way bridges, letting others in as we seek to understand and serve others. It is necessary to build bridges with others, it is not a solitary task, but one to do with the other and others.
In subsequent reflections I will share some thoughts on the other mission priorities of Evergreen. Thanks for checking in and sharing with us your ideas on this work, which you can do on the “contact us” webpage.
Marcia
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