when you are drafted to play for Midweek Advent services and you start figuring out hymn arrangements you can compose for your prelude, offertory, and postlude.
(I spent my healthy walk today dissecting “O Come O Come Emmanuel”.)
Category Archives: Ministry
Crocheted Bandages
This morning was Mission Sunday at Jon’s churches and our speaker was from Global Health Ministries. It was an interesting sermon with great stories and when I was perusing his display, I saw a handout on knitted and crocheted bandages. Apparently, these can be used in tropical situations where you’ve got people with leprosy or ulcers on their bodies to cushion the area and protect any dressing that’s been applied.
I have some of the brochures and I can email you the info if you’re interested. It can be a Lenten project (instead of giving up chocolate or something else) or it could be a 4-H or youth group project.
The Minister’s Cat Is A Clerical Cat
A reason why I wash Jon’s alb at least weekly…
From the Mouths of Babes
On Sunday, we were having a special coffee before church to send off one of our members who is headed to the Middle East. Jon was standing off to the side and one of the little girls ran up to him, looked at him with big eyes, and ran back to her father. She then whispered very loudly, “Daddy! There’s God!!!!!!”
Jon is not going to live this down anytime soon. 😀
Hope
“Hope… means… a continual looking forward to the eternal world… It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next… It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. Aim at Heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’: aim at earth and you will get neither.”
–C.S. Lewis “Mere Christianity”
Why Clergy Hate Weddings
I fell off my chair laughing, hit my leg on the desk, and bruised it while reading this piece in Lutheran Partners magazine.
(Linked in honor of the pop tart wedding that took place this weekend.)