Sunday times

The "Spring Forward" concept is very hard to get used to but we're glad to have adjusted to it today. Due to the church schedule change, we were able to attend Sunday School for 1hr and 15 minutes rather than 1hr as usual. Since choir was not singing today, we remained in Sunday School longer and sat with the congregation for once!

Most of the bottom floor of the sanctuary was filled with students from 5th grade up to the college age level. It looked like a sea of blue since the students were wearing blue t-shirts to identify themselves as youth. I kept thinking back to when I was young person at our church in Massachusetts. Almost every week I'd dream that hundreds of students came through the doors of our very small church. You see, I grew up in a church pretty much by myself. There were no other children in my age group. What can you expect if a church has only a population of 30-40 people?

The service today was held by the church youth group. That meant that youth group praise and worship music played and some of the folks in the 60's and above group cringed a bit as an actual band set themselves up on the stage and sang music unknown to most. The speaker was a visiting pastor in his mid-thirties who focused upon Isaiah chapter six. The message gave hope to those who were failures in different areas and times in their lives. As long as people allow themselves to be used by God, He can use people mightily, no matter what failures have happened in the past.

After church, we hurried on to Lawson's parents home where we had a lunch of roast, carrots, green beans and mashed potatoes. Later, Lawson spent some of the afternoon helping his father fix a computer upstairs while I sat with Lawson's mother and watched with amusement, her stuffed animal type dog (a Papillon) slap a charcoal gray kitty around on the face.

We finished off the afternoon with a short nap back at our house and then took Kit for a one mile walk around the "block."