Pastor's Notes

This morning the family and I are away on vacation in Orlando, Florida.  We miss being with you, and look forward to coming home Saturday.  While I do enjoy vacations, I hate being away from home, and away from you.  You are my joy and delight, and will be much on my heart and in my prayers still this week.  I look forward to being with you next Sunday for our Fellowship Sunday.

Next Sunday, we will have a Fellowship meal, and encourage you to bring a soup, salad, bread, and/or dessert to share.  There is a sign up sheet in the back.  As a clarification, this sheet is not for permission to attend, but a means to make sure that there is variety of food.  If you decide Saturday that you want to come, please do so, as our fellowship is noit as special as when you are a part of it.  After the meal, we will have a time of singing of your favorites.  We have several hymnals to choose from, and you get to choose the songs that we sing.  If the piano player or I do not know the song - you either get to sing a solo, or pass on your selection.

NEW MINISTRIES!   Starting February 27, we will begin a Children's Choir.  This is for all our young people in the church, and their friends.  They will practice on Saturday and sing the next morning at the beginning of the service.  We will plan to do this every couple of months.

Also, in March we will begin a ministry for our older adults.  Pastor Bossley will lead this ministry, and will meet once each month for either a luncheon or an activity.  If you know that there is something in your monthly schedule that would preclude you from participating on that day of the month - please see Pastor Bossley and let him know.  Any ideas for trips or activities, please let him know.

Next Sunday, in Sunday School, we will look at some questions believers have to face concerning Creation.  Am I allowed to eat meat? Should I be concerned with the environment or with extinction? These questions are answered in the Bible, and we will examine them together.

-Pastor Stephen Racite