Sunday, February 14 – Overview

Dear [first name],

Thank you for your interest in being part of Episcopal Migration Ministries’ journey through the Lenten season. We are grateful to have you join us for daily prayer, devotions, and reflection.

Beginning on Ash Wednesday, February 17, we will send you a daily email that offers a reflection on a portion of Isaiah 58:6-12, pondering the text and its meaning through the lens of migration. You are welcome to invite others to join, and we encourage you to forward the emails along. We will also share the daily devotions on our social media channels, and welcome you to share.

As you pray and engage with the devotions, you will be joining with so many others across the Episcopal Church and the country who are doing the same. Together, #WeAreEMM: we form a community of prayer, reflection, and action.

Throughout the daily devotional series, we will share ways that you can become more involved in the work of Episcopal Migration Ministries. We also invite you to share [link] the ways that you are involved in migration ministry. We would love to hear from you.

EMM is a ministry of the whole Church and her people. Through this work, we welcome, support, and advocate for our newest neighbors, and are met by Christ and transformed in the process.

Blessings to you this Lenten season. We are grateful to walk with you.

EMM Church Engagement Team

 

REGULAR FEATURES FOR EACH:

  • Social media icons w/ links
  • “Receive the daily devotionals” as a button maybe– for when people Forward the email to those who are not already subscribed
  • Verse in italics as footer
  • “Share your story” – an invitation to folks to tell us how they are involved in migration ministry (should I make a Formstack?)
  • a box for a development ask   OR an EMM feature – like an upcoming webinar, or a resource, book kit, join the ministry network, etc

 

Isaiah 58: 6-12

Is not this the fast that I choose:

to loose the bonds of injustice,

to undo the thongs of the yoke,

to let the oppressed go free,

and to break every yoke?

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,

and bring the homeless poor into your house;

when you see the naked, to cover them,

and not to hide yourself from your own kin?

Then your light shall break forth like the dawn,

and your healing shall spring up quickly;

your vindicator shall go before you,

the glory of the Lord shall be your rearguard.

Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;

you shall cry for help, and he will say, Here I am.

 

 

If you remove the yoke from among you,

the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil,

if you offer your food to the hungry

and satisfy the needs of the afflicted,

then your light shall rise in the darkness

and your gloom be like the noonday.

The Lord will guide you continually,

and satisfy your needs in parched places,

and make your bones strong;

and you shall be like a watered garden,

like a spring of water,

whose waters never fail.

Your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt;

you shall raise up the foundations of many generations;

you shall be called the repairer of the breach,

the restorer of streets to live in.