LEARNING ABOUT MISSION

World Mission Sunday 2008 asks us to look at ways in which we can extend God’s grace to everyone, everywhere. It’s about reaching out, including, encompassing. And in the process our reaching out transfigures us.

On Christmas Day, 2007, the New York Times ran a story about the remarkable International Community School in Decatur, Georgia. You can access the story here. The school is the focus of this year’s World Mission Sunday sermon by the Rev. Martha Sterne.

Sermon

About the Author:

The Rev. Martha Sterne, Associate Rector of Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church in Atlanta, Georgia, has authored two collections of stories and meditations, Earthly Good (2003) and Alive and Loose in the Ordinary (2006). Before arriving at Holy Innocents’ in 2007, Martha served as the 8th Rector of St. Andrew’s Church in Maryville, Tennessee, and as Associate Rector of All Saints’ Church, Atlanta. In addition to publishing a number of articles on preaching, she has recorded sermons for Day1 (formerly The Protestant Hour).