New Adventure, New Life, New Birth

In the second Sunday of Lent, Barbara Moyer Lehman, associate pastor at Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA, explored the reasons why people are called by God to "leave it all." Basing her remarks on the Old Testament story of Abram and Sarai being called by God to leave the comfort of their home and native land to go to a "place I will show you," she cited the hope that lay within that call. "I will make of you a blessing to all the families of the world," she pointed out, calling her listeners to the same kind of risk-taking that brings hope and trust to the "empty spaces" of their lives. In following God's call explicitly, this ancient couple became the "Biblical models of faith."