2026’s theme is: It’s Time!  

From

Ecclesiastes 3:1-14

A Time for Everything

3 There is a time for everything,
    and a season for every activity under the heavens:

²     a time to be born and a time to die,
    a time to plant and a time to uproot,
³     a time to kill and a time to heal,
    a time to tear down and a time to build,
⁴     a time to weep and a time to laugh,
    a time to mourn and a time to dance,
⁵     a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
⁶     a time to search and a time to give up,
    a time to keep and a time to throw away,
⁷     a time to tear and a time to mend,
    a time to be silent and a time to speak,
⁸     a time to love and a time to hate,
    a time for war and a time for peace.

⁹ What do workers gain from their toil? ¹⁰ I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. ¹¹ He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. ¹² I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. ¹³ That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. ¹⁴ I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

Rochester Servant Event has been active in the Kingdom of God for 15 years!  As the planning team prayerfully explored many scripture passages, the Lord led us to Ecc. 3:1-14.  With the theme, “It’s Time!”

Over 15 years RSE has weathered a worldwide pandemic, tragedies and loss here at Redeemer and at other churches in the RSE Family.  We have experienced incredible joy and so much laughter!  We have had conflicts and hurt and ruptured relationship.  We have had families grow and names change through marriage.  We have seen relationships grow with individuals and organizations throughout Rochester and the surrounding area.  We have seen church groups that we love step away to start mission work in their communities!  There truly has been a time for everything!

Ecc. 3:1-14 is a starting point.  It shares truth and, in a way, helps us say, “It’s ok, God said this will happen.”  When we look at Ecc. 3:1-14 lit up by the rest of scripture, this passage comes alive!  Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection has taken the repetition and mundane futility of life described by Solomon and shakes it!

We read, “¹⁰ I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. ¹¹ He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”  It is time to see the beauty of God!  Solomon wrote about what he did not know.  We will celebrate and witness to, what we do know!  We have a Beautiful Savior who left the mystery of Heaven to take on flesh and blood and become the Way, the Truth and the Life!  Jesus makes all the difference!  Folks, IT IS TIME!  The fields are ripe with the harvest; we have prayed for the Lord of the harvest to send workers into His harvest field!  It’s Time!

You are those workers!  Jesus is in the field already, preparing the way.  Let’s get to work!

It’s Time!