It’s Tuesday! What happened to yesterday’s OSE-news!? Well, yesterday I was at Luther Springs (a very wet Luther Springs by the way). On Sunday afternoon, Michael Hyde and I took 5 of our confirmation class kids to Luther Springs (our Lutheran camp up in the north Florida woods, east of Gainesville) for a week of Confirmation Camp. It was raining when we left Vero and didn’t stop raining til Monday morning. 9” of rain at the camp! But the lake was down and needed it, and the rain didn’t dampen anyone’s spirits. Camp is like that. I came back yesterday leaving our kids in good hands with Michael, other pastors, counselors and about 20 other campers. I’m sure they will have a good week.
This is also the week that our senior high kids are on a mission trip in West Virginia. We talked to Jimmy Smith and Chris Reed (the youth leader for the trip) this morning. It was 50 degrees up there as they were all getting up, waiting for the sun to come over the mountain to warm them up, and getting ready to take on another day. Everyone was happy, healthy and doing well.
We have a big weekend coming up this weekend (June 30-July 1), as Sunday morning, after worship, we will be moving out of the main church! This week the pews are being disconnected from the floor and partially disconnected from each other so that after worship on Sunday, they can be moved into the lobby, narthex and fellowship hall for the next few weeks as new tile (matching the tile in the new narthex and lobby) will be installed throughout the church.
If you can help, with that move (especially any of you able bodied men) please plan on joining us this Sunday. You might want to come to worship wearing your work clothes Sunday, or come to worship Saturday night, then come back Sunday morning about 10:30 ready to work. If you have any furniture movers (something with wheels) of any sort, please bring them along. Along with moving the pews, the worshipers willing to pitch in will be asked to carry their hymnal and the pencils and offering envelopes in the pews, to the “Quiet Room” after worship. That way everyone gets in on the fun. Many hands make light work! (Some of the work is already beginning this week. Mark Davia, Brian Rodgers, Lynn Silkworth, Don Poust and Greg Miller, among others, have already been getting things moving.) A big thank you to all.
Starting the next weekend, we’ll be worshiping in the Fellowship Hall, the original sanctuary, at our regular worship times: Saturday 6pm and Sunday 9:30am. As Pastor Shelly mentioned, it will be “Retro Worship” for us. J And since we’ll be in a different setting for worship, and it’s summer, our music minister, Ryan Hostler, is requesting that you email us hymn requests! We’ll do our best to work into worship the most popular requests, both for while we’re in the Fellowship Hall, and then afterwards when we’re back in the main church. And they don’t have to be in the hymnal…we’ll consider all requests.
Finally, as I look out the window from the church office today, and see the gray, threatening, tropical storm clouds, it seems fitting that this past weekend in worship our theme was “storm stories”. So, this week, whether it is tropical storm Debby, or some other personal storm you face, may you hear the words of Jesus, “Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?”
See you in church! Pastor Jack Diehl + www.oursaviorelca.com
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