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Aug 27, 2012

God’s Peace be with you all.

Ecclesiastes 3:9-14   ⁹ What gain have the workers from their toil?  ¹⁰ I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with.  ¹¹ He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.  ¹² I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;  ¹³ moreover, it is God's gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil.  ¹⁴ I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has done this, so that all should stand in awe before him.

            Summer is officially over.  Labor Day is here, and long with it comes a hectic and busy time of our lives.  Things always seem to ramp up in this time from Labor Day until Christmas.  That is true both in our personal lives and in the life of the church.  For us, things are just starting to pick back up again.  We have a lot on the schedule for this fall.  Just when we want to seem to slow things down and enjoy this time of year, we know that we can’t stop.

            So what all is on our schedule?  Here are a few of the highlights: 

·         Chili Cookoff Sept 15 5:30pm

·         First Youth Group meeting Sept 15 (at 5, just before the chili cookoff)

·         Bible Study resumes this Wednesday

·         Fall in the Park

·         Our fall service at Lake Bowen will be in October

·         Oktoberfest

·         Reformation and All Saints Sunday

·         Fall Bazaar

·         Thanksgiving

·         Then we begin Advent (with a new bulletin format)

·         Advent Dinner

·         Christmas Parade

·         Christmas

If you thought it was a short list, think again.  That’s enough for now to keep us busy, even in the midst of taking one last day off from “work”.  What will we gain from this?  That remains to be seen, but given that we are on our way to having a record breaking year (weekly attendance, giving, and new members), I think it will be an outcome that is pleasing to everyone.

In our prayers this week:  Bobby, Ann, Jim A., Gere (room 557 (not the tower) at Regional), Jerry V., Mike C., David Ancell (friend of Betty’s), and Fairy (room 805 at Regional).

God’s Peace,