Rev. Bobby Musengwa

A Pastoral Reflection for Mission Presbytery Dear Friends in Christ, As Mission Presbytery enters Holy Week this Sunday, we will gather to remember Jesus's triumphal entry into Jerusalem. In some worship services children and adults will parade waving palm fronds singing the opening hymn, “All glory, laud, and honor to you, Redeemer, King, to whom the lips of children made sweet hosannas ring.” Over many years of pastoring, this has been the standard hymn in all the congregations I have...

Mission Presbytery End of Lent — Beginning of Holy Week By Rev. Bobby Musengwa Artist: Jesus Mafa, Cameroon On the Field of Play: A Vision for Peace This week I found myself watching Team USA in the World Baseball Classic Championship, facing Venezuela. When I woke one morning to read that Venezuela had claimed the championship, the footage of those players — their cathartic elation, their tears and embraces — stayed with me. And I began to wonder: what if it could be like this? What if the...

Reflection for the 4th Sunday in Lent John 9:1-41 There is a question I used to ask every Sunday at my former congregation at Maximo Presbyterian Church in Florida. I would ask those wonderful, faithful saints: What has God been up to in your life lately? It sounds simple. But over twenty years, that question did something remarkable. It helped people to pay attention.  It invited them to move through their weeks not as passive observers but as people actively looking for the living God at...