August 3, 2025 - Eighth Sunday after Pentecost: Can I Get an Amen?
August 3, 2025 Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Ladue Chapel Presbyterian Church
Luke 12:13-21 Mark 10:13-16
“Can I Get an Amen?”
Courtney Chandler
Sue Turner.
My mom, Judy Montgomery.
Shirley Thompson.
Harry Matthews.
Jane and David Hendrix.
Raymond Crowe.
Beeler Waters.
When I think of growing up in the church, these are the names that come to my mind.
My mom was my Sunday School teacher. She put figures on a felt board and gave us handouts and taught us the stories of our faith.
Sue Turner taught Children’s Church. That was what we had when we left worship after the children’s message. We would go to the basement of the church where we had a room with the old church pews lined up. Up front was a small altar with a cross and in the corner was an old chalkboard where Sue Turner had written all the words to the Lord’s Prayer so we could follow along. I knew the Lord’s Prayer, because Sue taught me those words.
Shirley Thompson helped with Vacation Bible School each year. I don’t remember anything in particular that she taught me. What I remember is how I felt around her. She always took time to talk to me and listen to me and even though I was a child, she was always interested in what I had to say or what I was doing. When we had a church talent show and I twirled my baton, I remember her telling me how impressed she was and knew that I must have worked hard. I always felt like I belonged when I was around Shirley.
Harry Matthews was my high school Sunday School teacher. I always felt bad for Harry. We had a group of boys in our class who knew exactly how to get Harry off subject. I can’t tell you much of what I learned in that class, but we had fun and there was always laughter. One day Harry told us something I always carried with me. He said, “When you ask people, ‘how are you?’ actually listen to their answer and ask how they really are. Take an interest in people, you never know what someone is going through and you may be the only person who asks.” I tried to always remember that when I was at school.
Jane Hendrix was my choir director. She was a trained opera singer and performed in local theater. Her husband, David, was a technical director for theaters and a local artist. He and Jane encouraged me to take up acting and humored me by letting me sing. They saw something in me I didn’t necessarily see in myself…a gift…and they saw to it that I used my gift.
Raymond Crowe never taught me anything at church. But he was there each and every week. Usually wearing a gray suit and tie and when you came in the door he greeted each child with a stick of chewing gum or a butterscotch candy. It wasn’t until I was about 25 that I learned his name. We just always referred to him as, “The candy man.” His welcome of children made me want to get up and go to church every Sunday.
Then there was Beeler Waters. When I came home from college the first person I looked for at church was Beeler. He lived across the street from my grandmother and on Sunday mornings he would high five me and ask me all about school. When I went off to college I missed him so much. He was always so genuinely interested in how I was and made me laugh. He passed away senior year of college and I remember crying for days because I knew that church would never be the same without good ol Beeler.
These are just a few of the names of the adults who helped shape my faith. Those who took an interest in my life and those who affirmed my gift and skills. These are some of the individuals who are responsible for leading me to my calling.
They didn’t have to do these things. They didn’t have to give their time or skills to working with children or just being kind to children. They just did it. And I am so thankful they did. IN fact, CANI GET AN AMEN?
It was because of the people who raised me in my faith, that I made my way here to Ladue Chapel to work with our children, youth and families. And I am so thankful for the work they did which led to my calling to ministry and my time with each of you.
In biblical times, in the Mediterranean world, children were not valued. They were seen as personal property and had no voice. Jesus’ invitation to allow the children to come to him, meant reaching out to the lowest on the social ladder. To declare that the Kingdom of God was for those like these children, was a statement to those who were leaders and rulers in that space and time. The statement was and still is this: With God, your status and your importance doesn’t matter. God is for everyone…being in positions of power does not win you favors with God. Having riches does not win you favors with God…welcoming and loving even the lowest is what God has in mind. It’s for those who suffer and struggle and for those who want nothing more in this life than to belong…
And that is our call as a church. This is our call as a community of faith. We make a promise to each and every child who comes through the waters of baptism, to be there for them, to teach them, to lead them, to guide them.
God blesses each of us with gifts and talents to use for the good of the church community. The Holy Spirit blew her mighty wind in our direction and filled us with the gifts we need to be able to declare the light of Christ with all we meet…This gift is not just for some, but for all and that is how we are able to do the work of the church. CAN I GET AN AMEN?
And yet, for some reason, we, much like the very fortunate and wealthy farmer from the text Peter read earlier, tend to hoard our treasures and talents and not share them as we should, especially as it pertains to our children and youth.
In that text from Luke, Jesus has been speaking to the crowds and has called out the hypocrisy of the Pharisees when someone in the crowd asks Jesus, as a respected teacher, to help with a family dispute. He wants his brother to share his inheritance with him. Jesus’ refusal to help is a little surprising to me, especially since the books of Luke and Acts deals with economic justice.
Eugene Boring and Fred Craddock tell us, “The questioner is not an evil man, he simply shares the common assumption that life does in fact consist of one’s possessions. This is what Jesus challenges.” They continue, “The man in the story (Jesus tells), is also not evil, he is a model of cultural standards of success. His harvest has exceeded his expectations so the problem is what to do with this unanticipated wealth. In public the man may make a statement about the welfare of the community and helping the community, but the reader gets to hear his internal thoughts, and see what he is really planning…his inner thoughts are all about himself. He could have shared his wealth with those who are hungry, but this never enters his mind. He only thinks of himself. The man has been given this gift and while he seems to be a success in the eyes of the community, in the eyes of God, he is a fool for not sharing this gift.
God has given us much because our God is a God of abundance. This congregation is blessed to have financial gifts. But we also have the gifts of our time and our talents. And with these gifts comes great responsibility. To lock our gifts away and keep them for ourselves or just our families, is equal to building bigger barns. Our gifts are meant to be shared as a way of building up community and today, as the person who has worked with our children and youth so closely for the past 6 years, I am telling you that it is difficult to find people to share their gifts with our children.
Now, I understand that not everyone has the gift of working with children or teenagers. We all have different gifts given to us. We would not be able to function as a church if we all had the same gift and skill sets. So I am going to try to explain it to you like this:
This past week we had a wonderful week at Vacation Bible School. In fact, I heard some say it was the best Vacation Bible School they had ever helped with. So I started thinking about what was different this year…
We had the same schedule we have had for years. The theme was very similar to one we had 2 or 3 years ago (they all start running together). Children had passports then and they had passports this year. We tried to simplify the crafts and came up with different crafts for different age groups so that probably helped some, but we have done that in the past as well. Music…David and Anne always do a great job with music. The bible stories I always feel are great. They have to be adjusted for various ages also because a 4 year old hears things very differently than a 10 year old. We changed up the beginning and ending which were fun because Larry and Landen acted as our pilots and led each day with great enthusiasm and ended our time each day by getting kids excited to come back the next day…
So what was it that made this year the best yet?
Two years ago I struggled to find adults to help with Vacation Bible School. We had almost all youth helping and very few adults. We also had covid going back around and we lost a few of our youth to covid. That week was exhausting! Last year it was better, but our staffing for VBS was still very sparse.
This year was different. We had people who have never volunteered before. We had Landen’s great idea for VBS and we recruited people to act out the characters for the story time. Now, we did have a shortage of male actors. In fact, Lance Smith was the only male actor signed up. Fortunately, this church was gifted with Mark Vago as your business manager, because let me tell you: This man is more than an accountant and manager…this man is a godsend. He played 3 of the male characters this week! He was Moses, Peter and a Roman Centurion. And he could answer any question that the youngest group of children could throw at him. HE USED HIS GIFTS AND SKILLS THIS PAST WEEK AND DID NOT HOARD ANY OF THEM. CAN I GET AN AMEN?
Aside from the male actors, which Mark handled beautifully, we had people who made buttons for the children. We had people who donated their luggage so it looked like we were in an airport. We had Lia make the best signs for check-in and baggage claim. She also created boarding passes for each day. We had youth I had never met before who came as a way to get service hours, but who left very much a part of our community. We had people cut out crafts at home. We had people on stand by in case we had illness make its way through our staff. We had Gretchen Ross and Emily Holman checking folks in and we had Larry's use of plane expertise along with Landen’s creativity to help us fly to our destination each and every day. We had so many wonderful volunteers that I had very little to worry about and it ran so smoothly.
I know some of our helpers are not here today, but if you were a volunteer at VBS could you please stand? And if you helped make buttons or cut things out, could you please stand? And if you donated luggage, could you please stand? Now this is what I mean by having the community come together to help our children and youth. This is how we use our gifts and skills and how we honor the vows we make to our children when they are baptized. For these folks, can I get an amen?
And yet, we still struggle to find teachers and covenant partners and helpers for our children and youth. If you are on the fence about working with children or youth, let me share some things with you.
Every Sunday we leave this sanctuary and our children go to the very end of the opposite side of the building…sometimes they put the cookies out on the table on our way as their way of helping at church (also a way of getting first dibs on cookies). We go into the room and we light a candle and as we light it we say, “There was once a man who said and did many wonderful and amazing things. He was a teacher and a preacher. He fed people and healed people. One day someone asked the man, ‘Who are you?’ and the man said, ‘I am the light.’”
Ok kids, who was the light? (Jesus). We go through the order of worship. We sing the doxology, we sing the Gloria Patri, we hear a bible story, we share our joys and concerns and we pray the Lord’s Prayer. The sweetest sound to me, is when children stay in worship and I can hear them over all of you adults saying the words to the lord’s prayer and knowing that they learned these words in Word and Wonder. We end our time by “Changing the light.” The light that was in one place at one time is now in all places and all times because we carry this light with us wherever we go.
I will never forget the year children came to church in their Halloween costumes. David was playing something special at the end of worship and Colleen Ruiz marched our children in the side door at the end of worship and sat them down to listen. In the front pew were Wednesday Addams and the Grim Reaper and the giggles from the chancel were amazing!
I will never forget watching a sheep try to run away with the Baby Jesus during our Christmas pageant. I will never forget watching our children learn about the Highland games from these big Scottish kilt wearing athletes as they taught them how to play the games at the Kirkin festival. I will never forget taking pink flamingos and decorating people’s yards as part of Mission and Mischief. Or wearing fake mustaches as we did side walk chalk on Dieter’s driveway for Mission and Mischief. Or losing Lucy Kerr in a wicked game of Sardines at youth group. I will never forget the meaningful conversations with confirmands or the tears that were shed by one confirmand after her baptism and how the rest of the class came to her side to comfort her as they had grown very close over the year. I will never forget watching children walk the labyrinth in silence and after asking how they felt and watching one child move to tears as she said, “It was nice to be quiet and still. I feel like I always have to be going somewhere or doing something.” Or reading the many cards we have made for people over the years. My favorite being when we made get well cards for one of the Sarah’s in the church and when I read one of the cards I laughed when I read, “Get well Satan” because the r looked like a t and the h an n…and I was so glad that Sarah had a great sense of humor because we laughed about that card later.
Decorating pumpkins, telling jokes, listening to how their day or week is going…watching Olivia Van Stavern and my Liliann hold hands as they walked out on the field at the Cardinals game when they sang with the choir because they were so nervous, but then seeing them grin when they saw their faces on the jumbotron…
These are the moments I treasure and I hope that some of you will find ways or continue to find ways to lead our children and youth. It’s always an adventure with them. They can be rowdy and silly, but they are so bright and they have a deep spirituality. Don’t hoard what God gave you. Share it. Help build the children and youth of our congregation up so they can continue to learn and grow, because when you do, I can guarantee you will also learn and grow. We don’t need bigger barns for our gifts and skills, we need to share and we need to participate in welcoming our children into the Kingdom of God as active participants in the church today. Some may work behind the scenes. Others out front. Each and every gift is needed and welcomed. Ladue Chapel, share your gifts. Make memories with these amazing children and grow as you watch them grow. You won’t regret it. I know I don’t. They are amazing and full of life and give me hope. And for that, can I get an amen?
Ladue Chapel Presbyterian Church
Luke 12:13-21 Mark 10:13-16
“Can I Get an Amen?”
Courtney Chandler
Sue Turner.
My mom, Judy Montgomery.
Shirley Thompson.
Harry Matthews.
Jane and David Hendrix.
Raymond Crowe.
Beeler Waters.
When I think of growing up in the church, these are the names that come to my mind.
My mom was my Sunday School teacher. She put figures on a felt board and gave us handouts and taught us the stories of our faith.
Sue Turner taught Children’s Church. That was what we had when we left worship after the children’s message. We would go to the basement of the church where we had a room with the old church pews lined up. Up front was a small altar with a cross and in the corner was an old chalkboard where Sue Turner had written all the words to the Lord’s Prayer so we could follow along. I knew the Lord’s Prayer, because Sue taught me those words.
Shirley Thompson helped with Vacation Bible School each year. I don’t remember anything in particular that she taught me. What I remember is how I felt around her. She always took time to talk to me and listen to me and even though I was a child, she was always interested in what I had to say or what I was doing. When we had a church talent show and I twirled my baton, I remember her telling me how impressed she was and knew that I must have worked hard. I always felt like I belonged when I was around Shirley.
Harry Matthews was my high school Sunday School teacher. I always felt bad for Harry. We had a group of boys in our class who knew exactly how to get Harry off subject. I can’t tell you much of what I learned in that class, but we had fun and there was always laughter. One day Harry told us something I always carried with me. He said, “When you ask people, ‘how are you?’ actually listen to their answer and ask how they really are. Take an interest in people, you never know what someone is going through and you may be the only person who asks.” I tried to always remember that when I was at school.
Jane Hendrix was my choir director. She was a trained opera singer and performed in local theater. Her husband, David, was a technical director for theaters and a local artist. He and Jane encouraged me to take up acting and humored me by letting me sing. They saw something in me I didn’t necessarily see in myself…a gift…and they saw to it that I used my gift.
Raymond Crowe never taught me anything at church. But he was there each and every week. Usually wearing a gray suit and tie and when you came in the door he greeted each child with a stick of chewing gum or a butterscotch candy. It wasn’t until I was about 25 that I learned his name. We just always referred to him as, “The candy man.” His welcome of children made me want to get up and go to church every Sunday.
Then there was Beeler Waters. When I came home from college the first person I looked for at church was Beeler. He lived across the street from my grandmother and on Sunday mornings he would high five me and ask me all about school. When I went off to college I missed him so much. He was always so genuinely interested in how I was and made me laugh. He passed away senior year of college and I remember crying for days because I knew that church would never be the same without good ol Beeler.
These are just a few of the names of the adults who helped shape my faith. Those who took an interest in my life and those who affirmed my gift and skills. These are some of the individuals who are responsible for leading me to my calling.
They didn’t have to do these things. They didn’t have to give their time or skills to working with children or just being kind to children. They just did it. And I am so thankful they did. IN fact, CANI GET AN AMEN?
It was because of the people who raised me in my faith, that I made my way here to Ladue Chapel to work with our children, youth and families. And I am so thankful for the work they did which led to my calling to ministry and my time with each of you.
In biblical times, in the Mediterranean world, children were not valued. They were seen as personal property and had no voice. Jesus’ invitation to allow the children to come to him, meant reaching out to the lowest on the social ladder. To declare that the Kingdom of God was for those like these children, was a statement to those who were leaders and rulers in that space and time. The statement was and still is this: With God, your status and your importance doesn’t matter. God is for everyone…being in positions of power does not win you favors with God. Having riches does not win you favors with God…welcoming and loving even the lowest is what God has in mind. It’s for those who suffer and struggle and for those who want nothing more in this life than to belong…
And that is our call as a church. This is our call as a community of faith. We make a promise to each and every child who comes through the waters of baptism, to be there for them, to teach them, to lead them, to guide them.
God blesses each of us with gifts and talents to use for the good of the church community. The Holy Spirit blew her mighty wind in our direction and filled us with the gifts we need to be able to declare the light of Christ with all we meet…This gift is not just for some, but for all and that is how we are able to do the work of the church. CAN I GET AN AMEN?
And yet, for some reason, we, much like the very fortunate and wealthy farmer from the text Peter read earlier, tend to hoard our treasures and talents and not share them as we should, especially as it pertains to our children and youth.
In that text from Luke, Jesus has been speaking to the crowds and has called out the hypocrisy of the Pharisees when someone in the crowd asks Jesus, as a respected teacher, to help with a family dispute. He wants his brother to share his inheritance with him. Jesus’ refusal to help is a little surprising to me, especially since the books of Luke and Acts deals with economic justice.
Eugene Boring and Fred Craddock tell us, “The questioner is not an evil man, he simply shares the common assumption that life does in fact consist of one’s possessions. This is what Jesus challenges.” They continue, “The man in the story (Jesus tells), is also not evil, he is a model of cultural standards of success. His harvest has exceeded his expectations so the problem is what to do with this unanticipated wealth. In public the man may make a statement about the welfare of the community and helping the community, but the reader gets to hear his internal thoughts, and see what he is really planning…his inner thoughts are all about himself. He could have shared his wealth with those who are hungry, but this never enters his mind. He only thinks of himself. The man has been given this gift and while he seems to be a success in the eyes of the community, in the eyes of God, he is a fool for not sharing this gift.
God has given us much because our God is a God of abundance. This congregation is blessed to have financial gifts. But we also have the gifts of our time and our talents. And with these gifts comes great responsibility. To lock our gifts away and keep them for ourselves or just our families, is equal to building bigger barns. Our gifts are meant to be shared as a way of building up community and today, as the person who has worked with our children and youth so closely for the past 6 years, I am telling you that it is difficult to find people to share their gifts with our children.
Now, I understand that not everyone has the gift of working with children or teenagers. We all have different gifts given to us. We would not be able to function as a church if we all had the same gift and skill sets. So I am going to try to explain it to you like this:
This past week we had a wonderful week at Vacation Bible School. In fact, I heard some say it was the best Vacation Bible School they had ever helped with. So I started thinking about what was different this year…
We had the same schedule we have had for years. The theme was very similar to one we had 2 or 3 years ago (they all start running together). Children had passports then and they had passports this year. We tried to simplify the crafts and came up with different crafts for different age groups so that probably helped some, but we have done that in the past as well. Music…David and Anne always do a great job with music. The bible stories I always feel are great. They have to be adjusted for various ages also because a 4 year old hears things very differently than a 10 year old. We changed up the beginning and ending which were fun because Larry and Landen acted as our pilots and led each day with great enthusiasm and ended our time each day by getting kids excited to come back the next day…
So what was it that made this year the best yet?
Two years ago I struggled to find adults to help with Vacation Bible School. We had almost all youth helping and very few adults. We also had covid going back around and we lost a few of our youth to covid. That week was exhausting! Last year it was better, but our staffing for VBS was still very sparse.
This year was different. We had people who have never volunteered before. We had Landen’s great idea for VBS and we recruited people to act out the characters for the story time. Now, we did have a shortage of male actors. In fact, Lance Smith was the only male actor signed up. Fortunately, this church was gifted with Mark Vago as your business manager, because let me tell you: This man is more than an accountant and manager…this man is a godsend. He played 3 of the male characters this week! He was Moses, Peter and a Roman Centurion. And he could answer any question that the youngest group of children could throw at him. HE USED HIS GIFTS AND SKILLS THIS PAST WEEK AND DID NOT HOARD ANY OF THEM. CAN I GET AN AMEN?
Aside from the male actors, which Mark handled beautifully, we had people who made buttons for the children. We had people who donated their luggage so it looked like we were in an airport. We had Lia make the best signs for check-in and baggage claim. She also created boarding passes for each day. We had youth I had never met before who came as a way to get service hours, but who left very much a part of our community. We had people cut out crafts at home. We had people on stand by in case we had illness make its way through our staff. We had Gretchen Ross and Emily Holman checking folks in and we had Larry's use of plane expertise along with Landen’s creativity to help us fly to our destination each and every day. We had so many wonderful volunteers that I had very little to worry about and it ran so smoothly.
I know some of our helpers are not here today, but if you were a volunteer at VBS could you please stand? And if you helped make buttons or cut things out, could you please stand? And if you donated luggage, could you please stand? Now this is what I mean by having the community come together to help our children and youth. This is how we use our gifts and skills and how we honor the vows we make to our children when they are baptized. For these folks, can I get an amen?
And yet, we still struggle to find teachers and covenant partners and helpers for our children and youth. If you are on the fence about working with children or youth, let me share some things with you.
Every Sunday we leave this sanctuary and our children go to the very end of the opposite side of the building…sometimes they put the cookies out on the table on our way as their way of helping at church (also a way of getting first dibs on cookies). We go into the room and we light a candle and as we light it we say, “There was once a man who said and did many wonderful and amazing things. He was a teacher and a preacher. He fed people and healed people. One day someone asked the man, ‘Who are you?’ and the man said, ‘I am the light.’”
Ok kids, who was the light? (Jesus). We go through the order of worship. We sing the doxology, we sing the Gloria Patri, we hear a bible story, we share our joys and concerns and we pray the Lord’s Prayer. The sweetest sound to me, is when children stay in worship and I can hear them over all of you adults saying the words to the lord’s prayer and knowing that they learned these words in Word and Wonder. We end our time by “Changing the light.” The light that was in one place at one time is now in all places and all times because we carry this light with us wherever we go.
I will never forget the year children came to church in their Halloween costumes. David was playing something special at the end of worship and Colleen Ruiz marched our children in the side door at the end of worship and sat them down to listen. In the front pew were Wednesday Addams and the Grim Reaper and the giggles from the chancel were amazing!
I will never forget watching a sheep try to run away with the Baby Jesus during our Christmas pageant. I will never forget watching our children learn about the Highland games from these big Scottish kilt wearing athletes as they taught them how to play the games at the Kirkin festival. I will never forget taking pink flamingos and decorating people’s yards as part of Mission and Mischief. Or wearing fake mustaches as we did side walk chalk on Dieter’s driveway for Mission and Mischief. Or losing Lucy Kerr in a wicked game of Sardines at youth group. I will never forget the meaningful conversations with confirmands or the tears that were shed by one confirmand after her baptism and how the rest of the class came to her side to comfort her as they had grown very close over the year. I will never forget watching children walk the labyrinth in silence and after asking how they felt and watching one child move to tears as she said, “It was nice to be quiet and still. I feel like I always have to be going somewhere or doing something.” Or reading the many cards we have made for people over the years. My favorite being when we made get well cards for one of the Sarah’s in the church and when I read one of the cards I laughed when I read, “Get well Satan” because the r looked like a t and the h an n…and I was so glad that Sarah had a great sense of humor because we laughed about that card later.
Decorating pumpkins, telling jokes, listening to how their day or week is going…watching Olivia Van Stavern and my Liliann hold hands as they walked out on the field at the Cardinals game when they sang with the choir because they were so nervous, but then seeing them grin when they saw their faces on the jumbotron…
These are the moments I treasure and I hope that some of you will find ways or continue to find ways to lead our children and youth. It’s always an adventure with them. They can be rowdy and silly, but they are so bright and they have a deep spirituality. Don’t hoard what God gave you. Share it. Help build the children and youth of our congregation up so they can continue to learn and grow, because when you do, I can guarantee you will also learn and grow. We don’t need bigger barns for our gifts and skills, we need to share and we need to participate in welcoming our children into the Kingdom of God as active participants in the church today. Some may work behind the scenes. Others out front. Each and every gift is needed and welcomed. Ladue Chapel, share your gifts. Make memories with these amazing children and grow as you watch them grow. You won’t regret it. I know I don’t. They are amazing and full of life and give me hope. And for that, can I get an amen?
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