A Long Time Ago...

So I just realized that I haven't posted in well over a month. So let me get you up to speed.

We have called a new senior pastor (yeah). Hopefully that means I can concentrate on more of the things I am responsible to do. I am looking forward to working with our new pastor. He is 39 and has a ton of great ideas I hope, let me rephrase, I pray that we can accomplish through God's direction. Our desire is to move to be more specific in reaching the younger adults, youth and children. That is going to be a huge change for our church where the average age is well over 50.

I had talked with my Mom the other day (she will be 82 in May). She had an opportunity to attend Sandals Church in Riverside, CA where I got my niece and her husband to start attending church. So my Mom went with my brother, his wife and my niece and her husband. I was waiting for feedback from my Mom, so I finally asked her what she thought of Sandals. She told me she really liked the music (and she didn't bother to pick up ear plugs), she enjoyed Matt's message and got a lot out of it. So I asked her what her favorite part of the worship service was. Mom's response to my question, "Getting to sit and worship with my son, daughter-in-law, niece and her husband in the same worship service as a family!" Amen Mom, preach it!

I am so tired of the worship wars that rage on and on in the church. It shouldn't be about the music, it shouldn't be about the style of preaching, it shouldn't be about the pews or chairs, it should be about God and us drawing closer to Him and each other. What an awesome thing for my Mom to be able to attend the same service as her son and grand-daughter. I am thankful for what Sandals is doing in the lives of people and the fact my niece and her husband love to attend.

Well, after that preachy stuff. I was able to get out last week a couple days and hit the links. It had been awhile since I chased the little white ball around the golf course. I also was able to get my two sons (age 8 and 5) and my wife out to the driving range to whack some balls. Must say that it is a good thing that on driving ranges they have metal fence barriers between golfers to prevent deflected balls from killing unsuspecting golfers. My sons are deadly.

Later,
Bob