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Happy Tuesday!
I just returned from an amazing weekend in New Hampshire with our church lead team, and we’re ready to take on the summer time to fulfill God’s purpose for Fellowship Church. We started off this excellent weekend on Sunday morning at FC in Holden. I’m pleased to report that for the first time in the history of our church (or at least in the ten years that I’ve been there), we did not decrease in attendance on Memorial Day weekend. We started off a new series called, “Something old, something new”, and the whole morning was absolutely phenomonal.
I think I’ve mentioned it before, but if you need a reminder – I love our church!
Afterward the service, which focused on Baptism, blogs, and the announcement of our new series coming in June called “One Prayer,” 12 of us took off for Waterville Valley, NH for a time of relaxation and dreaming. I’ll write more about the actual trip tomorrow, but I wanted to share with you what an outstanding weekend Carie and I had.
Also, you may remember this post where I asked if there was any pastors in New England who blogged. I found very few in my search on google that I would read regularly, but I did find a few and I’ve been diligently reading their posts. This morning getting caught up in my posts, I found that I received a shout out from this guy who’s a pastor in Hopkinton, MA. Thanks Mike for your kind words,and I’ll be communicating with you very shortly.
As many of you know from this post, and from other places, tragedy struck the family of Christian singer Steven Curtis Chapman when his 5 year old adopted daughter was struck down by a vehicle in Tennessee. This morning I watched this video and it brought me to tears.
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Pastor Mike rocks! I’ve been attending his church now for just a few years… Lots of freedom there. People can be as anonymous or as involved as they want to be… pretty much make their church experience what they want it to be. Which, in my case, isn’t much of an experience, but I know that’s because I’m a low-profile kind of a guy. And I’m not really sure what I believe… I want to believe, and I had religion pounded into my thick skull as a kid, but somehow don’t have any real conscious contact as an adult. But the kids look forward to Sunday School and that’s a big reason why I keep going. Anyhow. It’s a good church in which everyone can make their own place, which is something I really like.
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