Bishop Karen Oliveto
Seasons don’t always neatly transition, one to the next. There are questions and uncertainties about a new season. But each season offers the promise of new life, and new ways of encountering the world and each other. Just like in biblical times, in parts of the Mountain Sky Area, autumn is the season for planting the winter wheat that will be harvested in the spring. God’s harvest happens no matter the season or the place.
I have found the one constant in the ever-changing seasons to be God’s love. The hymn O Love, That Will Not Let Me Go has been my anchor when it feels like all else is swirling around me. This love of God, in turn, enables me to walk through all the changing circumstances of life in love, remaining connected not only to God but to those around me.
I look forward to learning of the ways you are making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world in your town, of how you are providing the anchor of God’s love in the changing seasons of your community, and of the ways you are embodying love in all your relationships: with those in your pulpits and pews, with the people living in your neighborhoods who long to know that God’s love is real, and with everyone you meet.
I pray that we live into beloved community, that we live boldly as the body of Christ. and love so fully, so completely, that the neighborhoods in which United Methodist churches stand in are utterly transformed by the love that spills out of these communities. Bishop Karen Oliveto
I have found the one constant in the ever-changing seasons to be God’s love. The hymn O Love, That Will Not Let Me Go has been my anchor when it feels like all else is swirling around me. This love of God, in turn, enables me to walk through all the changing circumstances of life in love, remaining connected not only to God but to those around me.
I look forward to learning of the ways you are making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world in your town, of how you are providing the anchor of God’s love in the changing seasons of your community, and of the ways you are embodying love in all your relationships: with those in your pulpits and pews, with the people living in your neighborhoods who long to know that God’s love is real, and with everyone you meet.
I pray that we live into beloved community, that we live boldly as the body of Christ. and love so fully, so completely, that the neighborhoods in which United Methodist churches stand in are utterly transformed by the love that spills out of these communities. Bishop Karen Oliveto
The Mountain Sky Area of The United Methodist Church
The Mountain Sky Area is made up of the Rocky Mountain Conference (www.rmcumc.org) and the Yellowstone Conference (www.yacumc.org). The Episcopal Area includes churches in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, and two churches in Idaho.
