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Those who are most seasoned and experienced among us are our Seniors. Older adults are the fastest growing segment of our church attending community. This ministry seek to examine the biblical honor due our seniors and then create practical avenues for us to do ministry. Two areas are immediately dominate in our focus, they are “honor” and “covenant community”. To honor our elders means to acknowledge the significance of their years and to treat them as persons of worth. Elders are honored as repositories of wisdom and resourceful contributors to the covenant community as well as recipients of care.

 

With the Western leanings toward individualism, the contrast is vital to the covenant community. A sense of personhood and connectedness is the channel of our faith. Shared pasts afford us with the appreciation of a shared history, shared culture and shared challenges. Elders must be valued as important bearers of this history and culture. They are meaningful participants in the covenant community. They validate where we are because they know from whence we have come.

 

A covenant community cultivates cross generational relations as the context for this meaningful ministry. Reclaiming a communal ethic wherein all generations are seen as connected parts is the kinship cycle we wish to see evolve.