Posts from October 2024

Weekly Update – October 17th, 2024 As was announced on Sunday, we as a church will be participating in Operation Christmas Child (OCC) this year.  OCC is an effort organized by Samaritan’s Purse and it involves a simple concept – providing boxes of Christmas presents to needy children.   On a grand scale, OCC will bring gift-filled shoeboxes to an estimated 220 million children in 170 countries on six continents this year. The idea behind OCC is for volunteers to fill…

Weekly Update – October 10th, 2024 No one ever expects their town to be the one hit when the storm warnings appear.  The storm’s path may be predicted, the weather sirens may go off, the skies may be black and a tornado may even appear, but hope is always held out until the last minute that disaster may somehow be averted.  This was not the case for many in Florida this week. As residents packed up and left under mandatory…

Weekly Update – October 3rd, 2024 It’s Sunday morning and it is raining.  One of the easiest things to say is, “I’ll just watch the service from home today, I won’t be missed this one Sunday.”  Or, it is Sunday morning and you are tired, “I’m going to catch up on some sleep today, I’ll catch up on the service later online, it is almost the same thing as being in person anyway.”  Perhaps you are having a conversation with…