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This past Saturday members from Legacy Church joined members from St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Community , Collin Creek Community Church , West Plano Presbyterian Church , and over 900 others for the Seton Soles 5K run/walk. 250 volunteers provided support and encouragement to all who participated. The purpose of the run/walk was to raise funds for the Monsignor Henry V. Petter Endowment Fund , which exists to support "work in outreach and justice" in Plano and Collin County. Henry Petter has served as a priest at St. Elizabeth Seton for almost twenty years, and he is a runner. He will retire in the near future, and he wanted his legacy to be something that dealt with the systemic issues that oppress and exclude people from the necessities of life . The church knew this and created the endowment in his name and the run to raise the funds. Two things about the event please and challenge me . The first was, as Blair Richie of CCCC said Saturday morning, getting Catholi...

While some are mourning the demise of denominations , I continue to be excited about the possibilities of no longer needing to keep our sheep within strict doctrinal and liturgical fences. Finally, being the big "C" church is about the sheep and not about the shepherds. Another aspect of the crumbling walls of sectarianism and the reviving and re-forming of the church in America is a renewed focus on serving the communities in which we live and work . Being the church is no longer about gathering members but about empowering missionaries to serve where they live and work and go to school. Cooperation in the larger Body of Christ and attention to the needs of people in our mission field have combined to bring new life to dying fellowships and stagnate churches. Last year, Markus Lloyd, Children's Pastor and Creative Architect at Legacy Church , led us to partner with three other churches in our community to raise money for an endowment to address the needs in our ci...