{"id":5353,"date":"2016-11-04T12:12:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T16:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woosterumc.org\/?p=5353"},"modified":"2016-11-04T12:12:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T16:12:27","slug":"gifts-can-bring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woosterumc.org\/new\/gifts-can-bring\/","title":{"rendered":"What Gifts Can We Bring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cWhat Gifts Can We Bring?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hymn that serves as the inspiration for this year\u2019s Stewardship Campaign theme, \u201cWhat Gift Can I Bring?\u201d was written in 1980 by Jane Marshall in celebration of the Northaven United Methodist Church\u2019s twenty-fifth anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marshall, a member of that Dallas, Texas, area congregation for many years and a composer and teacher of great renown all over Christendom, sought through this hymn, both the text and the tune, to remind us that ours is a faith which has been passed down to us from the past as a gift, one which we are called to claim each day of our lives, to open and unwrap and enjoy, and then to repackage and repurpose so that others might likewise come to know the Lord whom we know and to follow in the footsteps, in the pathways which he places before his people, before us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over the next several weeks, then, we will be unpacking the several verses of this hymn, as we consider how their composer\u2019s insights infect and affect our own. For we are preparing to bring our gifts to God, through our Estimates of Giving for 2017 presented in worship on November 13<sup>th<\/sup>. And when we do this, we will be preparing the gifts, the presents, the tokens which we have received from others \u2013 from God, from our forebears \u2013 we will be preparing these for presentation to countless others, persons known and unknown, who will follow us here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Michael Hawn has recently written: \u201cOne may find Jane Marshall at Northaven United Methodist Church on any given Sunday morning. It is not unusual for the choir to sing one of her recent anthems or for the congregation to sing a new tune to a text she has chosen. As Jane Marshall nears the completion of her nearly nine decades, former students, those who have attended Jane\u2019s many workshops, church musicians, and those who sing her hymns throughout the United States give gratitude for her many contributions to the congregation\u2019s and choir\u2019s song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">What gift can we bring,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">what present, what token?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">What words can convey it,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">the joy of this day?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">When grateful we come,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">remembering, rejoicing,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">what song can we offer<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">in honor and praise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat Gifts Can We Bring?\u201d The hymn that serves as the inspiration for this year\u2019s Stewardship Campaign theme, \u201cWhat Gift Can I Bring?\u201d was written in 1980 by Jane Marshall in celebration of the Northaven United Methodist Church\u2019s twenty-fifth anniversary. &nbsp; Marshall, a member of that Dallas, Texas, area congregation for many years and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-musings-and-meditations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What Gifts Can We Bring? 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