I would like to thank our congregation for allowing our youth to attend AFFIRM this past year. We had an amazing experience. I was in the unit called Worshiptivity. This unit allowed me to plan all of our worship services as well as lead the worship music and on the last day give a sermon (gasp!). Brittany and Ashlyn were in Revelations and they will have to tell you about that experience. If anyone has any questions about AFFIRM or would like to go next year please contact me. Thanks ---Whitney
P.S. I will try to upload pictures from this event soon but you can also find them just about anywhere on Facebook.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Saturday, June 13, 2009
This week's news
Hi all,
It may not be a lot of news this week, but the sermon blog is cooperating once more and so I put up tomorrow's sermon. The link to the sermon blog is on the left side of this page.
The people from Luther Memorial did a great job with their yard sale this weekend at the Forest Hill community center. No word yet on how much money was raised. The remaining unsold items were donated to Appalachian Helping Hands, and boy, do they need all the help they can get right now. Thanx!
Last week's Synod Assembly was great. I was surprised and happy to see how much more organized and well-run it was than the assemblies we had in Upstate New York. The hotel and conference center were amazing. I was on the Credentials Committee, and got to meet new people and even ran into one of my colleagues from Upstate NY, someone who had served in Verona before me. Fred Beaver went to the Assembly as a guest from Luther Memorial, and I believe he got something out of the experience that he can bring back home with him. Next year we need to try to send someone from Luther Memorial as Voting Members.
Yestreday Jeff Neas, Jeff LaFollette, and Aaron Ottinger spent a few hours working in the cemetery at Salem repairing headstones. Thanx, guys!
I'll put up another post within the week. May you all have a week blessed by God's grace and compassion in all that happens.
Pr. J
It may not be a lot of news this week, but the sermon blog is cooperating once more and so I put up tomorrow's sermon. The link to the sermon blog is on the left side of this page.
The people from Luther Memorial did a great job with their yard sale this weekend at the Forest Hill community center. No word yet on how much money was raised. The remaining unsold items were donated to Appalachian Helping Hands, and boy, do they need all the help they can get right now. Thanx!
Last week's Synod Assembly was great. I was surprised and happy to see how much more organized and well-run it was than the assemblies we had in Upstate New York. The hotel and conference center were amazing. I was on the Credentials Committee, and got to meet new people and even ran into one of my colleagues from Upstate NY, someone who had served in Verona before me. Fred Beaver went to the Assembly as a guest from Luther Memorial, and I believe he got something out of the experience that he can bring back home with him. Next year we need to try to send someone from Luther Memorial as Voting Members.
Yestreday Jeff Neas, Jeff LaFollette, and Aaron Ottinger spent a few hours working in the cemetery at Salem repairing headstones. Thanx, guys!
I'll put up another post within the week. May you all have a week blessed by God's grace and compassion in all that happens.
Pr. J
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