Crazy Season

Wow! The stretch from Christmas -- through Bishop Curry's visit --- through Lent --- and then Easter was just crazy! This is within one day the earliest Easter can be. Add the Bishop's visit in the middle and it becomes even busier.

All that said, it was an amazing stretch. The Bishop's visit was great! We have a DVD of the service. Email me or call the office at 869-5311 if you would like a copy. (Someday I will find time to figure out how to post videos on this blog. Probably easy --- after the first time!)

During Lent I tried something visual to go with the sermon theme. I used the theme of "you can only see clearly by looking through the cross" In other words, when we try to view our lives and our world without considering, or looking through the cross we see a distorted view. To make that a bit more obvious I took down the wooden cross behind the altar and covered all the windows with film. Then I cut out the shape of the cross so that was clear but the rest of the windows were fuzzy. (It worked better at night than during the day.) On Easter I took off the film and re-hung the wooden cross.

We also (with lots of help, especially from Tom Gordon and Bert Walls) installed a 15 station prayer walk at the church. We decided this year to go around the parking lot so it was easy for anyone during any weather. Several people commented on how much they appreciated this opportunity. One day I happened to see the meter reader looking at it and going through the booklet! (special thanks to Curtis Tysinger for bringing his power hole digger and to Bruce Kafer for helping to install all the sign posts.)

On Easter we changed the Prayer Walk from the traditional Stations of the Cross to a relatively new: Stations of the Resurrection.