A Photo Flashback and Today

The picture is of eight new members of Palouse Federated Church. They were welcomed as members on Sunday, Feb. 5th. From left to right (all the way across- no front and back), they are: Frances, Gerri, Oralene, Vida, Sherry, Liz, Bob and Brenda. [Thanks to Peggy Collier for taking the picture.]
I am excited that we also have many baptisms coming up. I am excited that we had a productive goal-setting workshop on Saturday. Thanks to Betty for the excellent teaching. Thank you to all who were able to come and share vision and direction for our ministries. Many goals were set- and other goals were under consideration. The different boards will now set their official 12 month goals at their next monthly meeting.
I am really enjoying using the Nooma videos (check out www.nooma.com) in our adult sunday school and at youth/parent night. Rob Bell- the teacher on the nooma videos- is an excellent communicator. Anyways, this week we watched "Rhythm" at the adult sunday school and we watched "Lump" at youth parent night. Rhythm is about what it is to live in relationship with God- which can be a difficult concept to grasp- but Bell uses music as a metaphor. It's worth watching. Lump is about God loving you- no matter what shame you may have- very good. The church owns a bunch of these nooma dvds and we loan them out. So just let me know if you want to borrow them. Youth/Parent night was fun- first we had some sweet pasta- thank you parents! we played some games- but we also read Mark 2:1-12 =- the healing of a paralyzed man. We compared it to Lump- you had to be there- it was pretty cool.
In worship we had a "Give and Take" called "Big Questions Part I"- you see the youth Sunday School gave me a sheet of questions last Sunday to answer- big ones like: How has God always been? and how is Jesus the Son of God if he was born of Mary?
So I shared and some folks shared- but next week is part II and I am soliciting questions- even from you folks overseas- Saipan, Greece- wherever. So fire me off a question and it will likely make it into the next give and take. send it to: thelaugers@yahoo.com
Well it was a cold day outside- but we stayed warm inside with about 83 or so of us there worshiping our Lord Jesus Christ.
Thanks be to God.
Corey