On a day when we are celebrating the extent and variety of ministries in and of this community of faith, we are presented with scriptures about behavior... The ministries we celebrate are, at their best, ones in which we find it true that in service we are freed and in giving we receive. The ministries we celebrate today are those in which real and right relationship, --glimpses of real human connection through all the barriers that we construct and which define us in so many ways-become possible.