Pastor's Ponderings
Well, the calendar is about to turn over to August and the beginning of the birthday run (gauntlet) for the Karlen family. Gail and Creath both have birthdays in August, my mother's birthday is in August, one of my sisters has a birthday in August, and then on September 5th, we celebrate the genuine miracle of Madeline's birth. For me, August has long been a whirlwind, couple that with the end of summer and school starting again and it's just rush, rush, rush. Still though August is always a great month, this month we're a little slower paced here at Woodlawn, but that's okay as we have several projects that we need to attend to behind the scenes, preparing them to launch in the months ahead, August will hopefully allow us the time to prepare for these events/projects.
Coming up on the 5th of August, we do have a 'Meatloaf Dinner' scheduled. This dinner will take place right after worship so plan to stick around and enjoy a great meal. Starting this Sunday we'll have a training program on “Grief Ministry” put together by Noreen Bauman. This program will be taught in Fellowship Hall and go from 4:00 to 5:30 pm. This is a two-part class with the second installment being on August 19th also at 4:00 pm. Thank you, Noreen, for putting this class together!!
The concert that we just concluded Saturday was a great, GREAT time and I want to thank EVERYONE who helped out in both large and small ways! Jeff did a wonderful job chairing the project and we should all thank Jeff for all the hard work he did both in full view and behind the scenes. I will also thank Clyde as he really went the extra mile and was involved in nearly every aspect of the event. The committee will be meeting very soon to review and make future plans, if you have any insight or suggestions concerning the concert, please let Jeff Frank or myself know so we can take these ideas to the meeting. Thank you all for your support, it was a great ministry and we had people come all the way from South Dakota and Des Moines to attend. Jordanne and her Church's praise band were the opening act and did a great job, please send her a note thanking them for coming up and blessing us with their music. Jill Miller out of Sioux City did an absolutely fantastic job as our second act and let me tell you... she's GOOD! Very good! I bought one of her cd's and we may play some of her music in worship one of these upcoming Sundays. Our main act was Jacob Daniel out of Sioux Falls, Jacob is an up and coming young performer and he really is talented. He'll be opening for several big-name Christian performers in August and beyond so hopefully, he won't be out of our budget in the future. (I also bought one of Jacob's cd's and we may well play that in worship soon too)
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| Jill Miller performing at the "Son Celebration" July 21, 2018 |
I've been in contact with 'Central Christian Church' in Marshalltown, IA. They have a member who is a 90-year-old World War II veteran named Gary Anderson who had no homeowners insurance and whose home was struck by the recent tornado. The roof was torn off of his home and it sounds like the city will condemn the remaining structure. He's been moved into the Veteran's home and right now the Church is working to figure out where and what to do to help him in this time of need. I've offered to help them help this gentleman out and we'll be taking collections for the next two weeks to send down to Central Christian Church. I also offered to bring a few people along to help if they had a need for clean up, they indicated that right now they are mostly in need of funds to accommodate Mr. Anderson. Please be in prayer concerning assisting this elderly gentleman. Thank you all!
If anyone knows of anyone here in the local area who has a need for minor repairs or such... please let Jeff Frank or myself know, also if you know of anyone that is in need that could be benefited by the “Taste of Grace” program that the Woman's group has formed, please contact Kim Anderson. We'd really love to get both of these ministry's functioning more fully in order to meet whatever needs we are capable of fulfilling. We really need the assistance of the congregation in locating and steering us towards those who are in need of our blessing through these programs. Thank you!!
Together, we can truly be... a blessing to someone today! (and every day)
God's love, grace & joy to all,
Pastor Roy
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