The entire world has changed dramatically during the past few months. Our families and personal lives have not been immune to the disruptions and sufferings the pandemic has inflicted. We mourn for what has been lost.  We are anxious about what may come.

Nevertheless, two things abide:  God’s steadfast love for us through Jesus Christ, and God’s commandment for us to love one another.  
While it is true that “love never ends” (I Corinthians 13:8), how we experience and share God’s love does change. As the stories in this magazine demonstrate, our members and staff have exhibited amazing resiliency, creativity, and perseverance in continuing Second’s mission. We have had to so thoroughly reimagine, rethink, and recreate our ministries that it feels like we have had to begin, anew.

However, in reality, with God’s abiding love and Second’s faithfulness throughout many generations, it is more accurate to say that the crises we face have given us the opportunity to begin, again!