Between Sundays: Fueling the Light Together
What a beautiful week it has been here at Calvary! My heart is full as I reflect on the gifts of this community.
On Saturday, our Annual Bazaar filled the building with joy, laughter, creativity, and the kind of fellowship that only Calvary
can create. Thank you to every baker, crafter, worker, and joyful shopper who made the day such a blessing. And on Sunday, our Concert Series continued to share the grace of music with our community. What a gift it is to host such beauty within these walls.
All of this, every cheeseball, every melody, every warm greeting, is stewardship in action. It is your love poured out for Christ and for one another.
This week in Family Time, our children learned about two of the ways we give: Presence and Witness. We invited them to name
what they love about their church and how they show God’s love to others. Their candles now hang on the Chapel doors as a bright reminder of the simple truth: your presence matters, and your witness matters.
As we move toward Advent, a season of holy expectation, I want to invite you to join our children in this same spirit of joyful
stewardship. What do you love about your church? What light does Calvary shine in your life, your family, your week? How do you witness to God’s love in the places you live, work, and serve?
This Sunday is Consecration Sunday, and we will take part in a beautiful act of commitment. Following the tradition of King Joash, we will come forward and place our 2026 commitment cards into the Joash chest as a sign of love, gratitude, and covenant to the ministry God is doing through Calvary.
And as we prepare for this act of consecration, I want to remind you of a story at the very heart of Christian stewardship: the Widow’s Offering.
In Mark 12:41–44 and Luke 21:1–4, Jesus sits near the temple treasury watching people bring their gifts. Many wealthy people
give large sums, impressive, heavy offerings that echo through the collection box. But then a widow steps forward. A
woman with little in the world. She drops in two small copper coins, together worth almost nothing.
And Jesus stops everything.
He calls His disciples close and says:
“Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All of them contributed out of their abundance; but she, out of her poverty, has given all she had.” Her gift was small in amount but great in faith.
And Jesus honored it. This story reminds us that God does not look for equal giving, but for equal faithfulness.
The size of the gift never matters as much as the heart that offers it. Your prayers, your presence, your gifts, your service, and
your witness all fuel the flame of Christ’s light here at Calvary. Together, we shine brighter than any one of us ever could alone.
Let’s come to worship this Sunday ready to celebrate, ready to commit, and ready to keep the light burning for the city we love.
With gratitude and joy,
Dr. Hutton