Monday, June 7^th, 2021
A weekday e-mailer from
Matt Matthews
 
To Members and Friends of 
First Presbyterian Church
Champaign, Illinois
 
Friends,
 
Yesterday, First Pres began offering a thirty-minute preaching service for the residents of Windsor of Savoy. The morning went off without a hitch. Elder John Muirhead delivered the sermon. John is the coordinator of our “Amateur Preachers” group.
 
You’ll be hearing news this summer about how we are hoping to grow our Amateur Preachers ministry. You (yes, you) will be called upon to consider preaching a sermon at Windsor of Savoy or in a small congregation whose minister is on vacation.. You might have one or one hundred sermons in you. Please be thinking about this. Rachel Matthews is coordinating our efforts at Windsor of Savoy, and besides our Amateur Preachers, Judi Geistlinger (a Certified Lay Pastor), your pastors, and Rachel will be preaching.
 
I’m reminded what many wise people have told me, Many hands make for light work. Thanks, in advance, for thinking about this.
 
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Humor

When my daughter, Kelli, said her bedtime prayers, she would bless every family member, every friend, and every animal (current and past). For several weeks, after we had finished the nightly prayer, Kelli would say, ‘And all girls.’
 
This soon became part of her nightly routine, to include this closing. My curiosity got the best of me and I asked her, ‘Kelli, why do you always add the part about all girls?’
 
Her response, ‘Because everybody always finish their prayers by saying ‘All Men’!’
 
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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”—Howard Thurman
 
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PEACE to you all,
 
Matt Matthews
864.386.9138
Matt@FirstPres.Church