Last week I shared from Tony Dungey’s book THE MENTOR LEADER the idea that leaders make an investment in other people. When we choose to get connected, to get involved, we always run the risk of getting in the mud with people. Our lives are so complicated and sometimes messed up. Most of the time people just keep their messes to themselves, at first out of shame and later just because they have no idea how someone else could possibly help them. Sunday is Easter, the celebration of the resurrection of our Lord. The ultimate message of hope for lives wandering aimlessly. There will be three services on Easter at Wesley: 7 am on the front lawn, 9 and 11:15 in the sanctuary. At all three services, we will look at a tremendous promise God gives a desperate world, “For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'” Jeremiah 29:11 Everyone needs hope. Every person you know. Every single person you meet. Easter we will all share a word of hope and prayerfully we will all make the word a little more beautiful.
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