New England Assembly of the Laity
New England Conference of the United Methodist Church


From “The Dream”
by Wesley Fresndorff,

the late Episcopal Bishop of Nevada
and Bishop for the Navajo people.

Let us dream of a church in which
      worship is lively and fun as well as reverent and holy,
      and we might be moved to dance and laugh.
Let us dream of a church
      with a radically renewed concept and practice of ministry
      and a primitive understanding of ordained offices.
Let us dream of a church
      So salty and yeasty that it really would be missed
                          if no longer around
where there is a wild sowing of seeds
                          and much rejoicing when they take root
a church so evangelical that its worship, its quality of caring,
its eagerness to reach out to those in need cannot be contained.




Progress