by Rev. Eric Folkerth

I’ve been thinking more about the song that gives us our theme for this Lenten season: “Come and Find the Quiet Center.”

The last lines of the last verse are calling to me today, and I hope they are calling to YOU as we move through this season:

“There's a place for deepest dreaming
There's a time for heart to care
In the Spirit's lively scheming
There is always room to spare”

It is God’s Spirit who is always “dreaming” and “scheming” with us to create new and lively experiences and a rich full life.

I can assure you, there is a LOT of “dreaming and scheming” happening at KPUMC right now. The imminent departure of The Kessler School and the continued split within the UMC have both opened many doors for us to creatively vision our future. It’s a time of great challenge and opportunity.

Some of those plans are underway now. More will be soon. Very soon you’ll see dirt flying around here…first outside on the playground…later as we renovate downstairs rooms for an expanded Kessler Park Day School.

We hope you’ve seen the invitation to an All Church Potluck:

“What’s Going On?”
…In the UMC?
…At KPUMC?
Sunday, March 26
After Church in Fellowship Hall

Bring food to share and hearts to hear updates on the United Methodist Church split and our exciting plans for expansion during “Phase One” of our next era together.

As we go about all this we know that we cannot control what others may do. Some churches are clearly leaving for other denominations. But we know this:

God is opening a great opportunity for us to be a church that reaches out to our mission field, to our neighborhood here in North Oak Cliff. God is opening a future where we can truly use our open hearts and open minds to be a church of truly open doors.

Or, as the song says: “There is always room to spare.”

See you Sunday,
Eric Folkerth