The news for the month since
I wrote last unfortunately has to start with some hard things. The day after I wrote I went with two other
men from my church to a Church Security Seminar hosted by our local Family Life
Network. The seminar was excellent and
really encouraging in a lot of ways. The
hard parts were driving an hour plus in tricky weather, and the fact that a
Church Security Seminar is a needed thing these days. But we learned that providing a safe place
for our church family to worship is essential to being a welcoming and joyful
congregation. We are working on the best
ways to implement what we learned there at our church.
The other hard news was the
death of a dear lady in our church in a car accident. Again, an example of our fallen world. We are confident in her love for the Lord and
that she is in heaven with her Savior, but praying for grace and comfort for
her family.
On to happier news now! We celebrated Jemmie’s birthday (1/21),
Abigail’s birthday (2/2), Ansa’s first birthday (2/4), Cody’s birthday (2/11),
my brother David’s birthday (2/14), and today (2/18) is Caitlin’s birthday.
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| Jemmie's birthday cheesecake |
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| Abigail's birthday Mississippi Mud cake |
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| We had a combined party for Abigail and Ansa |
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| Birthday buddies! |
Krista and I finally got
around to breaking out our cross country skis that we’ve had for years. We got new boots for each other at Christmas
in 2018, but never got around to using them last season. It was fun and tiring (that's me breathing hard in the below video), but I’m glad we did
it. I fell a lot so I obviously need to
practice a lot more. I’m sure with our
weather around here, we’ll get more chances.
This past weekend I
participated with my quartet in Singing Valentines. Our chorus offers them almost every year as a
fundraiser, and we sang for about 30 different people between two
quartets. It was really fun singing to
people. Some were delighted, some
appreciative, some embarrassed. There
was at least one young woman we sang to that I think may make her man pay
dearly for embarrassing her like that.
We sang to her at her job in a hairdressers shop. Everyone else there loved it, but she almost
looked like she might kill someone.
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| Our Singing Valentine ad |
If you go to my quartet's Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Achording-To-Us-290163201860439/ you can see a video posted by us of the Singing Valentines. Also check out the Visitor posts for more videos!
Until March!
