Newsletter Thoughts March 28, 2026

Dear friends,

Tomorrow we kick off Holy Week. This sacred cycle builds us towards the culmination of our

faith as Christians, Christ’s journey to the cross, His death, and Resurrection.

On Palm Sunday, we cry out Hosanna! Hosanna means Save us; Deliver us.

Upon Christ’s entry into Jerusalem, the people rejoiced.

They came out of their homes, their places of comfort and safety to declare that they yearned for, prayed for, and hoped for a new way. They were a people oppressed by a tense, authoritarian government. A government conducting perpetual wars of domination and colonialism to thrust the elite few into the echelon of power while disenfranchising the majority. All throughout human history, this pattern replicates in new and cancerous ways. And still, God’s people find one another. They reach out and create community and they endure. They have faith in things unseen and they have trust that God’s story is unfolding in the unexpected ways that move us towards Olam Ha-Ba (באָּ הַ לםָ וֹע), the world to come.

Many miracles have been spoken of in the time of Lent, a time where we follow Christ’s ministry.

And the greatest miracle is yet to come in the story. But every day in our world, in the here and

now, we all exhibit little miracles. Miracles of care and concern for the other. Miracles of creating

phone trees and meal trains and prayer circles. We are stitch by stitch, palm frond by palm

frond, act by act, breath by breath creating the road towards justice, mercy, and compassion for

all. A world where we are able to circumcise our hearts and break our egotistical habit of being

King-makers and declaring ourselves Peace-Makers.

Hosanna! Save us, God. We know you have before, and we trust you will again. Hosanna, help

comes in the name of the One who Creates. Help comes through each and every one of us who

are made in the image of the Redeeming One.

May peace and liberation flow,

Minister Chelsea