We just found God

For immediate release

Temple Sinai Board of Trustees announced tonight that God has been found and returned to the temple's mission statement.  "Apparently, God had been inadvertently lost these past ten years," says Rabbi Jonathan Roos, "we were pleased to see how easy He was to find."  Mission statement experts report that 91% of all consumers, members or customers of an organization never look at a mission statement.  "It is no surprise," one expert who wished to remain anonymous told us, "that God could be dropped from a mission statement without anybody realizing it.  It probably happens all the time."  Board members were pleased to see God back in the temple mission though nobody could remember exactly when He left.  God's return to the mission statement still requires full congregational approval at the annual meeting in May 2011.  Roos does not expect much resistance to God's return but reminds readers that "hester panim" - God hiding from humanity - is a common divine behavior that could occur at any time between now and the meeting.  Other sources, however, were quick to point to Hasidic teachings that say, "Where is God? Wherever we let God in."  Still, you might want to show your support for God at the May meeting.

(Caveat: this is not a real press release but a joke suggested after tonight's board meeting where a motion passed unanimously to add the phrase "worship of God" to our temple mission statement)