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Friends and colleagues in the synod,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A week or so ago we had an email from a colleague who jokingly said he never thought he would give up church for Lent. Likewise, yesterday a friend said that after all the years of feeling that going to the Good Friday service was hard, she realized that not going was going to be even harder. It is difficult to know how to respond in these days.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When everything else has been stripped away, even going to church itself, we are still left with the enormity and wonder of the resurrection. Recall that the resurrection did not happen in a church building and that the first witnesses were three frightened women. In many ways our story this year is their story, or the story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus; Jesus revealing himself by walking alongside us and identifying himself in the breaking of bread.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Easter season we are grateful for you. We are grateful that in the midst of uncertainty and fear that you continue to lead with courage and faith. We are thankful for church leaders, ordained and lay, who are serving their communities in countless ways. We are praying for you and for your churches, for health and safety, but especially for a profound sense of wonder at the love that enfolds us in the resurrection of Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May you and yours be touched profoundly this Easter by the simple and wonderful truth of our faith,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christ has died<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christ is risen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christ will come again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May our risen Lord bless and sustain you,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With gratitude,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John-Peter & Tori Smit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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