leaving the garden

Good morning friends,
One exciting opportunity I haven't shared with you aggressively enough is an Urban Presbyterians Together initiative called Boots on the Street. Boots on the Street is an intensive week of community service by our urban churches to make a difference and show the community we care. This is the week and there are many ways you can participate. If you've enjoyed home rebuilding projects or wanted to, but never been able to, there are opportunities to spend a day working on a Habitat house in Rochester. That opportunity is available Wednesday through Saturday and is an all day commitment. There are also opportunities to serve in food ministries at Third Presbyterian Church on Thursday or Saturday. New Life, Brighton and Calvary St. Andrews all have touch up projects this week. I'll be heading over to School 25 (Goodman and Bay) to do some painting and possibly some gardening tomorrow afternoon around 4. Please give me a call (340-6095) or email if you can help out with any of these opportunities. You'll have a good time, get a T shirt, and meet other great Presbyterians engaged in the community.

Our reading today follows up the story of Adam and Eve leaving the garden and beginning their family. The twists and turns of the story of God's people keep things interesting.

God bless,
Sam

Genesis 3:20-4:2

²⁰The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

²¹And the Lord God made garments of skins for the man and for his wife, and clothed them.

²²Then the Lord God said, “See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— ²³therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. ²⁴He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a sword flaming and turning to guard the way to the tree of life. 

4:1 Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have produced a man with the help of the Lord.” ²Next she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground.