After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”
Luke 10:1-2
Greetings from the Anglican Church of Saints Timothy and Titus, more familiarly known as Sts. TnT.
Fr. Russell Martin, in his June newsletter article, delivers an urgent reminder that we live in a time that is ripe for the harvest of the Lord. "There are souls to be won for Christ and His Kingdom.” Fr. Russell underlines three lessons to be learned from Luke’s account of the Lord’s commissioning of these disciples: It is a continuation of Jesus’ own work, the Lord intended this to be communal work, and he sent them because more laborers were needed to enter the harvest plain. For the past year and a half or so, our congregation’s energies have been focused on survival issues, including getting accustomed to doing church-out-of-a-trailer. Now it’s time to be about the task that the Lord has given us to do in growing His body. In other words, it is time to move from survive to thrive. That means, of course, engaging the world and the surrounding culture and talking with others about our faith.
