This is too much fun to pass up. Don M. came in to tell me about a city ordinance back in his small home town in Illinois. The ordinance said that there could not be more bars than there were churches. So when one of the smaller store front churches was in financial troubles they would go over to the bars and pass the hat. Because if the church closed, one of the bars would be closing.
That’s got to be the most interesting stewardship or church growth strategy I have ever heard! If someone in that town wanted to open a bar, they would also have to start a church to keep the numbers equal?
Friday, May 22, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Updates
A beautiful day; flowering crabs in the area are at their full glory.
Confirmation classes are finished until the fall. We had a John Wesley actor at church last night who did a fine, fun job. We had Staff Parish Relations Committee meeting last night. I am getting pulpit supply figured out for my renewal leave this summer. We will be off to Australia and New Zealand where Beth will be as part of her professional development plans. Sara is back from college and has been figuring out how to absorb the dorm stuff back into her small bed room. Nick has his last choir concert on Friday, plus he will be playing bass trombone with the jazz band for part of the concert. In the fall he will be attending his senior year at The Perpich Fine Arts Public High School. Sunday sermon ideas are brewing in my mind. Council of Stewards meeting is tonight. My article for the Brainerd dispatch clergy view is just about finished. And I just might get a morning walk in before work. Annual Conference is next week.
And a prayer borrowed for the day from the Upper Room.
TAKE FROM ME, gracious God, all that separates me from you
— my sense of past sin, my pride in present achievements,
my anxieties for the future.
Make me self-forgetful as I gaze on you, and let me know
the joy of finding my true self in you. Amen.
- Helen Julian CSF
The Road to Emmaus: Companions for the Journey through Lent
From p. 95 of The Road to Emmaus: Companions for the Journey through Lent
by Helen Julian CSF.
Copyright © 2006 by the author
Rambling on
Rory
Confirmation classes are finished until the fall. We had a John Wesley actor at church last night who did a fine, fun job. We had Staff Parish Relations Committee meeting last night. I am getting pulpit supply figured out for my renewal leave this summer. We will be off to Australia and New Zealand where Beth will be as part of her professional development plans. Sara is back from college and has been figuring out how to absorb the dorm stuff back into her small bed room. Nick has his last choir concert on Friday, plus he will be playing bass trombone with the jazz band for part of the concert. In the fall he will be attending his senior year at The Perpich Fine Arts Public High School. Sunday sermon ideas are brewing in my mind. Council of Stewards meeting is tonight. My article for the Brainerd dispatch clergy view is just about finished. And I just might get a morning walk in before work. Annual Conference is next week.
And a prayer borrowed for the day from the Upper Room.
TAKE FROM ME, gracious God, all that separates me from you
— my sense of past sin, my pride in present achievements,
my anxieties for the future.
Make me self-forgetful as I gaze on you, and let me know
the joy of finding my true self in you. Amen.
- Helen Julian CSF
The Road to Emmaus: Companions for the Journey through Lent
From p. 95 of The Road to Emmaus: Companions for the Journey through Lent
by Helen Julian CSF.
Copyright © 2006 by the author
Rambling on
Rory
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