Shut Your Eyes and See

We often say how important it is to welcome the stranger, and indeed we do try to practice hospitality. But a closer, deeper connection is not so easy to risk. Growing up, many of us learned things about other people--some true, some false--but these teachings can make it more difficult for us to really see, and love, our neighbors as our selves. Sometimes we have to learn to shut our eyes to things we have been taught about others, in order to see another more humanly and more deeply. The Reverend Emerita Margot Campbell Gross serves as spiritual advisor to the Small Group Ministry Program. Judith Stoddard is the coordinator of the program. Other participants in this service are current or former small group facilitators. Rev. Margot Campbell Gross, Minister Emerita Judith Stoddard, SGM Coordinator Rev. Rev. Fred Rabidoux, Small Group Ministry Megan Lehmer, Small Group Ministry Peter Gross, Small Group Ministry Alessandro Gagliardi, Small Group Ministry Julia DeFranco, Small Group Ministry David Jones, piano Thomas Yee, violin Jieun Yee, piano Jonathan Silk, Sound, Order of Service & Worship Archives/Podcast