Greetings to KZN Region UCCSA Churches

At Umbilo, Saturday, 17 June 2006

Sinilethela imikhonzo ephuma emabandleni angu 400 ase Massachusetts Conference e United Church of Christ elise United States.

We bring you greetings you greetings on behalf of the 400 churches of the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ, in the United States.

Angabafowenu, no dadewenu, ebandleni lenkosi yethu.

They are your brothers and sisters in the church of our Lord.

Angu 20 alawomabandla angenele uhlelo ‘Ibandla lami linge lakho / My church is your church,’ manje akha ubudlelwane namabandla angu 20 ase UCCSA la, kwaZulu-Natal.

Twenty of those churches, participating in ‘Ibandla lami linge lakho / My church is your church,’ are now building relationships with twenty UCCSA churches here in KZN.

Amanye ambalwa kunokwenzeka aqale ubudlelwane ezinyangeni ezizayo.

Several more churches could be starting relationships in the next months.

Esewonke angu 40 amabandla asengabangani, uma sikhumbula umlando wethu osenza siphinde sibe umndeni.

So together, there are forty churches who are becoming friends, remembering our common history and making us, once again, a family.

Ngaleyondlela lamabandla alandela umyalo omkhulu othi, asithande omunye nomunye.

In that way, these churches are following the great commandment that we love one another.

Sithandazela ukuthi uMoya oNgcwele asihole, noNkulunkulu abusise lamabandla, nalemi zamo yokusisondeza ndawonye egameni lika Jesu.

We pray that the Holy Spirit will guide, and that God may bless, these churches and these efforts to bring us closer together, in Jesus’ name.