Have you ever felt inferior or experienced rejection?   Perhaps you have not been categorized like a Samaritan where you were despised or looked upon as a second-rate citizen, yet you may have been given the impression that you are unequal and looked down upon.  Isn’t it interesting that when we have experienced pain and hurt through the actions and words of others, it causes us to empathize more for the sake of others? Could it be that the Good Samaritan’s wounds and hurtful experiences in his life gave him a compassionate heart and that is why he stopped to help the man-who-fell-among-thieves?   There is power in our life experiences, and we can use them to benefit the lives of others.  Put yourself in the sandals of the Samaritan.  Today we send our Youth Gathering Team in the Sandals of the Samaritan to serve their neighbors in New Orleans.  We surround them with God’s and our blessings!

This Sunday will be a commissioning service for our Youth Gathering Team.  Holy Faith has 11 youth and 5 leaders headed to New Orleans to celebrate Jesus with 20,ooo other believing youth.  They go not only to celebrate but to serve.  As we have supported them all along the way, so we send them off in the sandals of the Samaritan to serve their neighbors in New Orleans.  On July 13th we will worship in the Beaudean Outfoor Chapel.  If weather does not cooperate, inside worship will be posted on the website.  If you would like to read the lessons before worship, they are:  Leviticus 19:9-18, Hebrews 12:1-3, and Luke 10:25-37.  The Lord’s Supper not be celebrated in our worship.  Sunday School is off for the summer.  It resumes with Rally Day on September 13th.  Pastor Clancy’s Zoom Bible Study will take place this evening at 7:00 p.m.  Go to the website’s calendar for the Zoom and Study Guide links.  Welcome to the family because we are all about building: