“Caterpillar’s Mushy Mess” 10/2/16 World Communion Sunday Scripture: 2 Cor. 5:11, 14-20 Mark 11:19-25 by Rev. Laurie Williams
Out of our denomination’s national Mission Agency during the past month has come a daily short article, an action the reader can take and a prayer, all leading up to today’s World Communion and Peace and Global Witness offering. I have read many of those as I receive them in my email at the church. I wanted to share this one with you to start off my sermon. It is entitled Caterpillar Soup. “Everyone loves the story of how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. I remember as a child in the classroom watching a caterpillar get fatter as it ate through leaves, watching it spin itself into a chrysalis. What was happening inside? What would be the outcome of this transformation? And then that amazing day when a beautiful butterfly emerged always amazed me. Something new was born. […]