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SEPTEMBER 2, 2026            
 
TRUE FREEDOM IN FORGIVENESS
 
Dear Snyder's Church Family and Friends,
 
This coming Sunday we shall read St. Matthew 18: 11 - 20
and the sermon title is "One Lost Is Found!"
We shall also pause to remember the 25th Anniversary of 9-11 where 3,000 Americans were killed.
We shall sing "This Is The Day"; "Jesus Is All The World To Me";
"Love Divine" and other music selected for the Service.
Jeff will share the Children's Moment. We will conclude our service with Holy Communion.
Following the Service we will have our fall picnic at the Pavillion and everyone is invited to be with us.
 
When Bill Clinton met Nelson Mandela for the first time, he had a question on his mind. "When you were released from prison,
Mr. Mandela," the former President said, "I woke my daughter at three o'clock in the morning. I wanted her to see this historic event."
Then President Clinton zeroed in on his question: "As you marched from the cellblock across the yard to the gate of the prison, the camera focused on your face. I have never seen such anger, and even hatred, in any man as was expressed on your face at that time. That's not the Nelson Mandela I know today," said Clinton. "What was that about?"
 
Mandela answered, "I'm surprised that you saw that, and I regret that the cameras caught my anger. As I walked across the courtyard that day I thought to myself, 'they've taken everything from you that matters. Your cause is dead. Your family is gone. Your friends have been killed. Now they're releasing you but there's nothing left for you out there.'
And I hated them for what they had taken from me. Then, I sensed an inner voice saying to me, 'Nelson! For twenty seven years you were their prisoner, but you were always a free man! Don't allow them to make you into a free man, only to turn you into their prisoner."
 
The moral here is you can never be free to be a whole person if you are unable to forgive.
 
We welcome you at Snyder's Church and pray God's peace and blessing for you.
Please be truly blessed today and may you also truly be a blessing to others.
God loves you and so do we.
See you in Church this Sunday morning.
Pastor Bill