WELCOME VIDEO

Praise Song: HERE I AM AGAIN

Praise Song: STILL I WILL WORSHIP YOU

Responsive Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:21-27 (NIV)

Leader: The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”

People: On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable.

Leader: and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment.

People: But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.

Leader: If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

All: Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.

Praise Song: DWELLING PLACES

Graduate Presentation Slides

Masters Degree Graduate: Erin Keating

College Degree Graduate: Sydnee Conley

High School Graduates: Emily Barros, Mikayla Durr, Vinh Huynh, J.T. Moutsos, William Villavicencio

Middle School Graduates: Christopher Egelebo Jr., Ryan Friedman, Ma'Kayla Polite, Solo Jawara

STUDENT MINISTRIES: Burn Your Homework Bonfire

Calling all SM students! Come on out to the farmhouse on Wed., June 16, for a bonfire/ End of Year celebration.

Time: 6:30 to 8p, officially... but 5:00p for those who are going to help gather wood and start the bonfire and who just wanna hang out!

Place: 3110 Emory Church Road, Olney, MD

Bring: masks and your own drinks (work gloves for wood), blankets / chairs, something representative of the school (that's safe to burn)

MUSIC NIGHT

Everyone is invited to a music worship night at Pathways on Saturday, June 19, from 7-8p. Enjoy the music presented by the students and young adults from Pathways and IBBW. A special guest will be joining us.

GRILLIN' AND CHILLIN'

Hot dogs and ice cream for all Pathways Kids (Preschool and Elementary) and their families on Father's Day, Sunday, June 20. Join us outdoors at the Pathways playground / Picnic area at noon. Please RSVP by texting "YES" and the number of people in your party to 240-277-6021 by June 16.

SAVE THE DATE: JULY 4TH

Pathways is celebrating July 4th with a church family picnic at the farmhouse (3110 Emory Church Road, Olney, MD). Plan to join us at 1pm following worship. We look forward to getting together with you and your family! More details coming soon.

SAVE THE DATE: ANNUAL CONGREGATIONAL MEETING

Plan to join us on Sunday, August 29 for our Annual Congregational Meeting and lunch. Let's celebrate what the Lord has done for and through the people of Pathways during the pandemic. We look forward to serving you and our community in the coming year.

Graduate Video and Recognition

Sermon Series: Snapshots ll
Sermon Title: The Outcast Among Us
Jonathan Der, Student Ministries Pastor
Mark 2:13-17

Opening Questions

Think of someone you know who really annoys you... because of something you’re not allowed to talk about. (Their skin color or their focus on their ethnicity, their politics, sexuality, gender, their religion, their life choices, etc.)

This person is your Outcast.
Do you think they feel the same way about you?

Why were tax collectors so Outcast?

For assessment purposes, tax collectors were allowed to search anything except the person of a Roman lady; any property not properly declared was subject to seizure. In Egypt, tax collectors were sometimes so brutal that they were known to beat up aged women in an attempt to learn where their tax-owing relatives were hiding. Ancient documents reveal that when harvests were bad, on occasion an entire village, hearing that a tax collector was coming, would leave town and start a village somewhere else.
NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible

The Outcast in your life - it’s probably going to cost you something deep to learn how to love them. But the depth of your love for them, the love that Jesus gives you for them - it will shock you, and you’ll be deeply glad for it.

Jesus and sinners|| Doctors and the sick || The Church and… ?

We are the sick. In here. Out there. Both.
There is no us or them.
The only one who isn’t like us, is Jesus.
And He calls us family.
And He calls us welcome.
And He calls us loved.

If you are hearing this message, then He is calling to you.
So don’t stand in your own way, and don’t let anyone else stand in your way of being welcomed to Him.

If this is a decision you want to make today, or a decision you want to renew, then tell someone. Let us know by clicking the connection card below. We want to eat with you like Jesus did and we want to walk out life with you, with Him, together.

Discussion / Meditation Prompts
(These are also in your email.)

1. What’s our Pathways vision and mission again? (check out the About tab on our homepage.) Is it possible to live these out without persons of difference in your life and in our Pathways community? Where do you want to start with your next step in pursuing the vision and mission in your own life?

2. Friendships are built from community, which take time. And very few of us have extra time. More likely, we have to reorder and reprioritize how and where and with whom we spend our time. Does this task seem daunting or impossible? What do you hear God saying to you about your patterns of how and with whom you spend your time? What of your time patterns can be changed to better pursue our vision and mission?

3. Changing our ways towards Jesus may not be easy, but He commands His children to change, and the change is for our benefit. What do you imagine might be the benefits to changing your time patterns, increasing your community connections within Pathways, serving others both in the church and outside the church, and embracing Others as Your Friends? What would these changes cost you?

4. Who might be the Other, the Outcast in your life of whom God keeps reminding you? Make a specific plan and a specific goal with measurable steps to reach out, invite, and keep intentionally growing that relationship. Who will you enlist to help you, be it in prayer, encouragement, accountability, or in presence?

Praise Song: GRACE FLOWS DOWN