LET IT SNOW!
I bet you already heard the forecast for this weekend. Snow starts Saturday afternoon, intensifies overnight and leaves us waking up to 6 - 12 inches of the over-glamorized white stuff on Sunday morning. That scenario would mean that our service won't happen, but watch this space and check your emails for the final call. The weather men have been wrong before!
I think I asked whose side God is on already, so I won't press the point because while a basement office is secure, it's not thunderbolt-proof.
It's Friday. It's after 11.00. And it's time to pull the cover off the week's best kept secret. Who wins the Supercool Person Of The Week award and a ten days Caribbean cruise? (Well, one out of two isn't bad!)
Some of the best churches in the country function just the way we do right now - setting up and breaking down in theaters, schools and a hundred other places. Whether it's National Community Church in D.C. or Mosaic in L.A., countless churches are proving that a building is secondary to the church's mission. Useful? - Yes, but only secondary.
Having said that, if you don't have a building, you do need a lot of alternatives for different activities. The fact we have a house and some other outbuildings on our church property is a great help to us and so is the fact that we are structured for small groups mid-week rather than a service that brings everyone together.
But did you ever wonder where the worship team meets to practice? How do they get ready for Sundays? Well for all who may have thought about this and for those who never did, the answer is ... Ray and Donna Pensivy open their home every Thursday evening so that our musicians and singers can prepare for the weekend. While Ray is one of our worship leaders, Donna is also our anchor at the soundboard and together they put in a very full morning on a Sunday - as do their daughters, Sherri and Lauren!
So for their great hospitality, for allowing regular home invasions, for their early Sunday starts, for their short vacations so they won't miss a Sunday and for their overall commitment to Jesus and to Grace Church, The Pensivy Family are our Supercool Persons Of The Week. When you see them next, why not thank them for all they do?
I think I asked whose side God is on already, so I won't press the point because while a basement office is secure, it's not thunderbolt-proof.
It's Friday. It's after 11.00. And it's time to pull the cover off the week's best kept secret. Who wins the Supercool Person Of The Week award and a ten days Caribbean cruise? (Well, one out of two isn't bad!)
Some of the best churches in the country function just the way we do right now - setting up and breaking down in theaters, schools and a hundred other places. Whether it's National Community Church in D.C. or Mosaic in L.A., countless churches are proving that a building is secondary to the church's mission. Useful? - Yes, but only secondary.
Having said that, if you don't have a building, you do need a lot of alternatives for different activities. The fact we have a house and some other outbuildings on our church property is a great help to us and so is the fact that we are structured for small groups mid-week rather than a service that brings everyone together.
But did you ever wonder where the worship team meets to practice? How do they get ready for Sundays? Well for all who may have thought about this and for those who never did, the answer is ... Ray and Donna Pensivy open their home every Thursday evening so that our musicians and singers can prepare for the weekend. While Ray is one of our worship leaders, Donna is also our anchor at the soundboard and together they put in a very full morning on a Sunday - as do their daughters, Sherri and Lauren!
So for their great hospitality, for allowing regular home invasions, for their early Sunday starts, for their short vacations so they won't miss a Sunday and for their overall commitment to Jesus and to Grace Church, The Pensivy Family are our Supercool Persons Of The Week. When you see them next, why not thank them for all they do?
posted by Roger Blackmore | 11:11 AM
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