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Making Your Congregation a Home

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Making Your Congregation a Home

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The need for 'home'–a safe and comfortable place where a person can grow and thrive is hardwired into the human psyche. So much so, that people who lose their home can become traumatized, when away from home for a long time, we become homesick, we all look for a place where we feel welcome and belong. The importance of 'home' to use as humans cannot be overemphasized. In 1620, a small group of English separatists left the relative safety and stability of the Netherlands for the New World, for a place that they could feel free to worship God in the way that they felt necessary, a new home. Their arduous journey carried them across the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean, and the rest is history. How important is it for us to have a place where we can spiritually call home? A place where we have family, where we feel welcome and comfortable, and where we invest our time and energy? How can we make our congregations a home and build a true community of believers?