Reflections From Sunday Evening

Today at church --

The worship services at each service this weekend were top rate.

It is always a joy to recognize Mothers' Day.

We baptized two adults and an infant - that was a joy!

The choirs and praise team led us in worship.

Something that was really neat was the dedication of the prayer shawls. Pastor Ginger has been meeting with a group of women and they have been making prayer shawls. We prayed that God would use these to bring grace to those who receive them. It is yet another way to extend the ministry of the church into the lives of others.

To top off the day we went out and dedicated the new flag mall. This project began a few years ago when a memorial contribution was made in honor of Bob Salisbury. He gave many years to scouting and Troop 314. The idea was to put up a flag pole. The concept grew and eventually became an Eagle project for one of our members of the troop. Today we dedicated the results. Three flags will fly -- the American flag, the United Methodist flag (we can also use the Christian flag) and another to be rotated. Today we raised the flag of Mozambique. We have a mission relationship with Mozambique. Our sister church there is Chibo. We fly their flag as a symbol of our outreach. This flag will be changed from time to time to represent other countries where we have mission outreach. We will also fly the troop flag from time to time.

It was a blessing to have Elizabeth Salisbury and members of her family present for the ceremony.

Today was a reminder of how we gather as the people of God and continually extend our witness beyond the walls of the church into the community and world.

It's been a good day. I hope you've had a good day too.