October 18, 2007
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Okay, only 2 months since my last blog.
The Saturday Night coffee house as a weekly event is holding its own. We get new people who say they like the concept, but then someone else disappears. We have a running joke that there are only about 35 people there a week, but if they all showed up we’d have 250! Besides our monthly soup night, we have also had two social events these last two months: ice cream in September and pizza this month. I think we have decided on pumpkin pie night for November and maybe a Christmas dinner in December. Most of the people seem to hang around for the socials after the service so that gives us all a chance to maybe develop some relationships with those we don’t know well.
Work has been going well since we are now in a new fiscal year and working under a new budget (at least we will when Congress gets off their lazy butts and passes one). I have enough jobs that are supposed to be funded to keep me plenty busy during the next 12 months. The added benefit in what I do is that, though I am an electrical engineer, I’ve taken on other maintenance type tasks to keep my position in the office I have been working in. Though it is sometimes a challenge, it is also a learning experience and gives me enough variety that I don’t get into a rut of boredom. God IS Good!!
My wife and I were off last week so we took a three day trip to Columbus, Ohio which is about a 3 hour drive from home. We got a suite in a hotel and spent some time relaxing and, as we usually do, visited all the Half-Price Books stores in the area (5). We always end up with a bunch of cheaply priced books and CDs. We also visited the Eaton Town Center which is a mall type shopping center which is outside and based on a town square type setting. Very interesting and I’d like to go back when I could spend more time there.
Besides work I am trying to get some work done around the house as well as putting together a teaching on prayer and worship for a prayer seminar the church will be giving in March. I am also researching several books for some ideas for the Saturday Night Christmas service as well as tweaking the Giving of Thanks service for November. After I get some ideas our “group”, presided over by the Saturday Night Pastor, will tweak them and put them together until we think it is what God wants us to do. As a group we don’t feel very creative but we have, with God’s help, come up with a few services that had an impact on the congregation. God IS Good!
A quick thanks to those of you who still stop by and especially those who respond with a comment, they mean a lot to me. I know I rarely get around anymore so I can understand when others don’t stop here.
Be Blessed!
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Comments (9)
o_0 Only 2 months? you may need to pace yourself Dale ...
Hugs, the coffee house sounds like its wonderful. And the trip to Columbus made me smile, that's the kind of trip I would take. Visiting half-price books ... yummy!
thanks for revisiting my site eventhough it had been dormant for so long. Lord bless.
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Ir is always a joy to read your blogs and hear about your ministry. Between my daughter Beth's wedding and the trip to California I have not been checking your blog (or doing a lot of other things). For a very long time I thought Half Price Books was a local bookstore where you lived. A few months ago I discovered there was one in Louisville, KY. We are directly across the river from Louisville. The bookstore is only about 20 minutes from my house (it is on the far side of Louisville from me). I just about went crazy the first time I went there. I had a huge stack of books, but they only cost about $25. We now have a bookstore in our town that sells both new and used books. They will also buy used books. They are not nearly as big as Half Price, but it is a lot closer to my house.
I am getting ready to be the solo teacher for 5 weeks in my Sunday school class of older ladies. My co-teacher is leaving on the 25th for a trip to Japan to visit her missionary daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren. +I attend an inner-city church and there are many challenges in my class. My ladies range in age from around forty to 83. There are a number of health problems both with the ladies and with their families. Some have family members in prision. Others deal with depression, substance abuse, and abuse. Most have very low incomes. Some are illerate. I will be starting to teach one of the ladies who can read a little. She wants to be able to read the Bible.
God bless you. Carol
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Thanks for the comment. I hope you are doing well. God bless!
Two months ain't bad
Greetings, brother. Thanks for stopping by my site. And thanks for your update. You sounds busy. We all are, I suspect. As long as it's for the Kingdom, that is how King Jesus should find us, may He come soon!
ok, it's time to post again. miss you.
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Wishing you a slightly belated Merry Christmas and many blessings for 2008.
Do you have any idea why my comments have all that extra stuff with them (please not use of highly technical term "stuff."). If so, what might the fix be? My daughter Beth has not been able to figure out the problem.
Carol
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Happy new year!
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