I need to make you aware of a major change.  Last week I announced in this newsletter that we would have our quarterly business meeting on Wednesday, October 15.  That has been moved back a week.  We will meet on Wednesday, October 22.  This is due to an issue with our financial report.  We wanted to make sure we had a complete report and there were a couple of issue to clear up.  So, next week, O...  Read More

I said last week in my article that we will be appointing our study group at our next business meeting on October 15.  I said that this was a very important matter as we will review our existing documents to make sure we are clear on what it means to be a member and what we are to be about as a church.  This is not a “rewrite” or a whole-sale revision but a clarification on a few points with the g...  Read More

I want to make you aware of something very important coming to this next business meeting.  For several months we’ve been discussing it in deacons’ meeting, and it was announced at the last business meeting, that we would be forming a study group to look at our church documents.  It has been 33 years since we approved our church constitution and by-laws.  We think it is time to revisit those.  Not...  Read More

In the message Sunday morning I said, “The commission of our Lord is your call to service in His kingdom.”  Every one of us has been called to gospel work.  We, each of us individually, and we together, have the responsibility and privilege of taking the message of the gospel to the world.  Paul said to the Romans, “How, then, can they call on him they have not believed in? And how can they believ...  Read More

Have you ever been to an orchestra concert?  The concert begins with the orchestra tuning up.  The first oboist plays a single A on her oboe, a note taken up in turn by the strings, the woodwinds, and the brass.  Then chaos breaks loose as each musician plays his or her own notes.  It is not music, it is discord.  You won’t find any CDs of “great orchestra tune ups!”  Sometimes during the warmup, ...  Read More

Most of us want life to be like an amusement park.  We want “safe” thrills.  Oh, we like it when the adrenaline is pumping, the heart is racing, we struggle to catch our breath, so long as we know it is all in fun and nothing is really going to happen.  We’re up for an adventure.  We like the idea that something can happen suddenly that will dramatically alter our lives providing it is for our “go...  Read More