The Homewood Star Volume 4 | Issue 8 | November 2014
neighborly news & entertainment for Homewood
This will be the first year for Rev. Brian Erickson, center, senior pastor designate of Trinity United Methodist Church, to deliver the homily for the annual Homewood community Thanksgiving service. He is pictured with Bill Johnston of Dawson Family of Faith, left, and Father Jaya Reddy of Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church, right. Photo by Karim Shamsi-Basha.
Uniting in thanks Churches come together for annual service By MADOLINE MARKHAM A Methodist and a Baptist walked into church together. But there was no punch line to follow. Instead, they worshipped together, along with their Episcopalian, African Methodist Episcopal, Catholic, Presbyterian and Lutheran neighbors. Nathan Carden uses the word “ecumenical”
to describe it. “Ecumenical refers to our desire to join together with other Christians and celebrate what unifies us rather than any other difference we may have around doctrinal lines or religious practices,” said Carden, the minister of outreach and Contact worship at Trinity United Methodist Church. “We find our common identity in the story of Jesus Christ and his command to love
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one another and be good to one another.” Carden is one of the organizers of the annual Homewood community Thanksgiving worship service, which will be held at Trinity this year on Sunday, Nov. 23. The service follows a similar order each year, with different parts led by leaders from the churches represented. Overall, its elements are more in a liturgical tradition used in Methodist,
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Episcopalian and Presbyterian services. “We Baptists jump in and hang in there when they are doing things that are not our tradition,” said Bill Johnston, associate pastor at Dawson Family of Faith. “It’s all a part of meaningful worship. The Baptists don’t wear robes and recite creeds in our tradition per se, but we all
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