4 Emergence & The Loft at Six Months by Bo Sanders & Chris Spearman
6 Member Profile : Eloise Siskel by Bette Caldwell
8 The Good News is Bread by John Woodall
9 Wesley Foundation Serving UCLA by Barbara Dunlap-Berg
10 Food for the Body , Food for the Soul by Jan Gonder
11 The Psalm of Lament by Nancy S . Price
The Organ by Gregory Norton
In this issue ...
4 Emergence & The Loft at Six Months by Bo Sanders & Chris Spearman
6 Member Profile : Eloise Siskel by Bette Caldwell
8 The Good News is Bread by John Woodall
9 Wesley Foundation Serving UCLA by Barbara Dunlap-Berg
10 Food for the Body , Food for the Soul by Jan Gonder
11 The Psalm of Lament by Nancy S . Price
The Organ by Gregory Norton
Winds of the Spirit ... When I attended my first national meeting of the United Methodist Association of Communicators last fall I was struck by how much of the presenters ’ energy was devoted to claiming their work as ministry . It seems self-evident to me that communicating the good news to a parish , a region , a denomination and the whole world is at the heart of our task as Christians . But the institutional church has often regarded its communicators as little more than necessary functionaries .
I returned from that meeting with a vision for deepening our ministry of communication at Westwood , and this second issue of The Spire as a quarterly magazine is another step in that new direction . The ubiquity and cost-effectiveness of electronic communications like our church websites and mass emailings has made the facts of parish program announcements available to all of us whenever we want them . These data are also still delivered on paper in less frequent editions of the four-page version of The Spire and every week in the Worship Guide distributed at the 10:00 a . m . service . The vision behind the larger quarterly publication that you are now reading , then , is to go deeper than an announcement sheet can : deeper in the sharing of stories among our members , deeper in our understanding of what we believe , deeper in celebrating the writing talents of our members and friends .
My prayer is that this summer you will come back to this magazine again and again , and in each reading sense the movement of the Spirit among the people of Westwood Church .
Grace + Peace , GREG NORTON
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