Love your neighbor as you love yourself . In every era the church must define love and discover just who its neighbors are. Deacons keep practical possibilities for ministry ever on the church s mind. Ministers of the Word and Sacrament such as Pat and me are ordained by the church to teach and proclaim the Word, the Word and those words that empower the faint-hearted and enliven those who feel as good as dead. Words are powerful.
Words can create .
Words can destroy. The Reformed tradition holds the power of the Word and words in high regard. We ordain servants of the Word. Word and Sacarament. Ministers of Word and Sacrament, the third office of the church, are charged to invite the congregation to the font of baptism and to the table of our Lord.