In Acts 2: 42-47, we read that “they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.”

The Spirit guided these believers to reach into one another in loving community, to offer up worshipful praise and adoration to God, and to serve those in need. These believers were able to accomplish those things because they were connected to the grace of God that nurture their faith. That grace came in several ways, including through the sharing of communion and worship, but first on the list of their activity is devotion to “the apostles’ teaching.” God nurtures disciples of Jesus as they are connected to his Word—a connection that comes in many ways, including through what is called “the apostles’ teaching.”

Scripture comes alive as the inspired, living Word that it is, when people find the living Jesus in its pages. Our task as nurturers is to help them do so: not just to learn something about Jesus, but to come to know Jesus personally, by serving each other’s and sharing with each other. Not just to read about that Word, but to live it—to obey it, and thus lived changed lives.  Members of the Nurturing Ministry find it helpful to give a chance to talk and pray with members together about what they are hearing and reading in Scripture. In these relational setting members share and process the nurture they have been vested from God through His Word. We encourage others with the gift of nurturing to come and be a part of this vital ministry.

Leader: Lay Servant, Dawn Revere