worship   is  back   in  the  Sanctuary for  sunday 

Sunday  Service   online


Video of Gaddis UMC Sunday Worship Service -
Sunday, 4-11-21 at this link:
https://vimeo.com/535554427

daily    devotional

                                                   Nouns and Adverbs
Mark 16: 1-8
          Joyce Hollyday tells the story of a school teacher who was assigned to visit children in a large city hospital who received a routine call requesting that she visit a particular child. The teacher took the boy's name and room number and was told by the teacher on the other end of the line, "We're studying nouns and adverbs in this class now. I'd be grateful if you could help him with his homework, so he doesn't fall behind the others." It wasn't until the visiting teacher got outside the boy's room that she realized that it was located in the hospital's burn unit. No one had prepared her to find a young boy horribly burned and in great pain.
          The teacher felt that she couldn't just turn around and walk out. And so she stammered awkwardly, "I'm the hospital teacher, and your teacher sent me to help you with nouns and adverbs." This boy was in so much pain that he barely responded. The young teacher stumbled through his English lesson, ashamed of putting him through such a senseless exercise.
          The next morning a nurse on the burn unit asked her, "What did you do to that boy?" Before the teacher could finish her outburst of apologies, the nurse interrupted her: "You don't understand. We've been very worried about him. But ever since you were here yesterday, his whole attitude has changed. He's fighting back; he's responding to treatment. It's as if he has decided to live."
The boy later explained that he had completely given up hope until he saw the teacher. It all changed when he came to a simple realization. With joyful tears, the boy said: "They wouldn't send a teacher to work on nouns and adverbs with a boy who was dying, would they?"
          This wonderful story invites us to celebrate the gift of life even when all we seem to see around us is pain and disappointment and brokenness. It shows us that on the other side of pain, there is resurrection. It reminds us of what is possible whenever there is hope.
          As men and women living in the modern world, we too need signs of hope and resurrection. We need the assurance that God is with us always. That is the promise we receive on Easter Day. We can have hope because we are living in the Resurrection Age.
          A child asks her mother, "Where is God?" Her mother answers, "God is everywhere." The child cries out, "But I want God to be somewhere!" So do we! We want God to be here, with us now and forever.
          This is, I think the greatest significance of our Easter celebration. For Easter is the promise we receive that Christ lives, and he is among us even now. The resurrection story is the foundation of our hope that Christ lives in eternity and that we will live with him now and forever.
          As Easter People let us Shout and Sing Christ is Risen! He is Risen Indeed!  Let us rejoice that we serve a risen Savior that walks with us today, tomorrow and for all eternity. Amen.
 
God bless,
Pastor Barbara

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Gaddis Church is a United Methodist Congregation.
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141 Hwy 87  |  P.O. Box 566
Comfort, Texas 78013
830.995.3813
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Sunday Service:
10:00 am Worship Service
(in sanctuary or in parking lot)

​Office Hours:
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​Friday |Closed
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Gaddis UMC thanks you for your cooperation and use of this plan.
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​Stay safe and healthy; Stay the Way.​