I read the news a lot. CNN.com several times per day. I am a news addict. Sometimes, its depressing, sometimes enlightening, and sometime just NOTHING. Check out this NEWS ARTICLE.DEPRESSING. Even ALARMING.It reminded me of the importance of our Connection Groups. I can’t imagine doing life ALONE for so long that you could actually die and have over a year go by without anyone noticing you were gone. These are the people my heart breaks for, the lonely.More and more Americans are starving for significant relationships.

As of 2004, the average American had just two close friends, compared with three in 1985. Those reporting no confidants at all jumped from 10 percent to 25 percent. Even the share of Americans reporting a healthy circle of four or five friends had plunged from 33 percent to just over 15 percent.Increasingly, those whom we consider close friends—if we have any—are household members, not people who “bind us to community and neighborhood.” Our wider social connections seem to be shriveling like a turkey left too long in the oven. (Christianity Today)

I wonder what it would take for us, the church, to become the solution to this problem. I don’t think anyone should die sitting in front of their TV and go un-noticed for over a year.I think the answer is right in one of our mantras at TCC: “Connect with God, Connect with OTHERS, and Connect OTHERS with GOD.”