One of the benefits of living in a small town in this part of the country is that for the most part people are pretty positive about churches and therefore churches are allowed to do what would be impossible in larger cities. Case in point. All of the churches in town have signs just off the main road leading into town from the highway...for free! Our Church had not put one up since the merger until Harmony and a few others painted the old Baptist 4x8 wooden sign and one of the deacons drilled holes and put in posts to mount it on last week. Now we have signage!
Harmony started a pilates class with another lady from the church this past Saturday morning in Washburn. She was really sore Sunday and Monday but for some strange reason was willing to wake up at 5:00am on Tuesday morning to drive fifteen minutes to a 5:30am pilates class that she knew would make her sore afterwards! I'm proud of her and I think it will also be a good way for her to get to know more women in our area.
Last night we had a second youth ministry planning meeting and I believe we worked out of all the details to start up a junior/senior high combined group in January. Now all that's left is to advertise all over the area (including in the local papers, on town bulletin boards and in the school...yes that's right, a church beign able to advertise events in schools believe it or not. Please pray for us as we figure out all of the details and seek to start this up early in January.
I am finishing up the adult Sunday School series on Spiritual Disciplines (i.e. prayer, evangelism, service) this coming Sunday. I think it has been quite helpful and hopefully has laid a solid foundation for future topics. Next I am going to teach a one week Christian biography session on Charles Spurgeon, a 19th Century English Baptist who has had a great affect on my life, and then another guy from the church is going to teach through a series on the early church in Acts.
The weather has been turning colder over the past couple weeks such that a number of days this week won't see a high of 50. We even saw our first snow flakes of the season on Monday. This wind has also been picking up steadily. Winter is coming!
This sermon this week was from 1 Peter 4:1-6 entitled "Live Christ-like or Die Judged." Hopefully you picked up on the reference to this summer's blockbuster movie "Live Free or Die Hard." Anyway, it seeks to answer the question "Is the Christian life worth it in spite of suffering?" If you would like to hear how this question is answered, click here.
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