Tomorrow night (Wednesday) we will have our annual kick-off picnic at Planet Playground at Northeast Park.  Those picnics are always times of grear fun and fellowship (not to mention the delicious food), and we look forward to being together.  But the significance of this picnic is that it is the beginning of our resuming our Wednesday night activities for the Fall.  We take a break during the summer but pick back up in September.  This picnic is our way of getting everyone back together and ready to get back in the swing of things. This coming Sunday we will have...

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 I knew I had not posted to this blog in a long time, but I did not realize it had been since early July!  Believe me, I have not been on vacation all that time, I just have not been posting here like I should.  I am going to resolve to do better. Isn't that the way life is many times?  We know what we ought to do but do something else.  Paul expressed that frustration in Romans 7.  I know that posting to a blog regularly is a small matter, but it does reflect a struggle we face with...

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 The 38th General Assembly of the PCA met last week in Nashville.  The General Assembly meets annually and is the highest "court" of the church.  We have three courts, or levels of government which are the Session, the Presbytery, and the General Assembly.  The Session governs a local church, the Presbytery governs a group of churches in a particular geographical area, and the General Assembly governs the whole denomination. Committees meet on Monday and Tuesday to prepare the business for the Assembly, and the Assembly officially opens on Tuesday night with a worship service and the election of a Moderator. ...

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 Well, we tend to think that during the summer things will slow down.  After all, we do not have regular Wednesday activities and a number of our Sunday evening services are cancelled.  But there are times when the summer seems as busy, if not more busy, than any other time of the year.  The last few weeks have been like that. VBS is always a busy time.  Getting ready for it and then going through it takes a good bit of mental, spiritual, and physical preparation.  Many of our folks went through that busy process during June.  This year our...

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 Well, we have made it!  This is the last day of VBS for 2010.  How God has blessed us this week.  The children have been wonderful, the teachers have been organized and diligent, the staff has been so helpful, the music has been fun and inspirational, the snacks have been tasty and good, the recreation has been entertaining, and the crafts have been interesting.  Whew!  Did I cover it all?  Thanks again to Rhonda for all of her hard work in putting  it together.  That made this week go so smoothly.  And Sarah stepped in to fill Rhonda's place in...

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