From the Pastor's Desk

Today is another one of life’s milestones for many children and families: the first day of school in Indian River County! This past weekend it was wonderful having so many of our children, teachers and those who work in the school system in any way, come forward for a beginning of the school year blessing. While a couple of our folks couldn’t be here due to being sick or out of town, the blessing included them also.




To take a few images from our Scripture readings and sermon yesterday, our prayer for our students, teachers (and all of us in fact) is that: 1) this year may be built on God’s presence and promises, which is a Rock solid foundation for life; 2) with that foundation that our lives be transformed into the kind of people God made us to be; and 3) that we find our true identity in that transformed, “built on a Rock” life, remembering that we are numbered with all of those heroes of faith from Abraham to Peter and all of the others since.



With the school year begun, Sunday School is now around the corner. A week from Wednesday, August 31, will be Sunday School registration night at Our Savior. A pizza and salad dinner will be served, children can come and meet their teachers and classmates, everyone will get to meet “Goldie” our Golden Retriever “Seeing Eye Puppy in Training”, who will be this year’s mascot for the Sunday School and you’ll get to hear about all that is in store for this new Sunday School year, for our kids and adults. So, please mark your calendars and plan on joining us.



As we keep an eye on our latest tropical weather system, our “Disaster Response Team”, which went to Alabama back in June, is on standby and ready for whatever may come our way. But the general feeling is that we probably won’t see more than some extra wind and rain, which is still needed (at least the rain part).



For other information about what is happening in and around Our Savior, please check out our website at: www.oursaviorelca.com . To see the member directory on that website, the password is: letyourlightshine. (I know, it’s kinda long. We’re working on that.)



God’s work; our hands! See you in church! Pastor Jack Diehl +