What’s your superpower? What awesome ideas are percolating behind your mask? What tricks have you got up your sleeve or under your cape? 

Have you ever thought how you might use these superpowers, these gifts, these skills in ministry? After all, what is lay ministry – ministry done by people who are not ordained as pastors – but helping God to save the world? Like superheroes. 

In the United Methodist Book of Discipline, lay ministry is defined as members who are “active advocates of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Every lay person is called to carry out the great Commission; every lay person is called to be missional.”

There’s a lot of opportunity to be a superhero in that definition.

So, what are your superpowers – your gifts – and where do you take them? Work? School? Community gatherings? Social networks? Social media?

What are the many, many, many situations in the world that cry out in need of a hero? This list seems so long right now. How can you, with your superpowers, answer that cry?

This Sunday, March 1, we are having a Ministry Fair. This event will give you a chance to learn about some of the many ways that people in our church use their superpowers to be the hands and feet of Christ in our church, in our community, and in our world. And, even better, it’s a chance for you to share your superpowers. 

But maybe you aren’t sure what your superpower is? Maybe you aren’t sure you even want to be a superhero. (Although, it is common for people to discover that once they start using their superpowers to help others, their personal benefit is even greater). 

Even if you’re a little uncertain about the whole superpower thing, won’t you join us for Ministry Fair? Working together, we can transform our lives, our church, our community, and our world. And help each other become the superheroes God calls us to be.”

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