Last night, the council voted on the fall worship schedule. Beginning on September 17th, Lord of Life will hold worship services at 9:00am and 10:30am. PLEASE NOTE: We continue to hold only one worship service at 9:30am for one more Sunday than has been the usual. The summer schedule will be extended to September 10th in order to facilitate participation in "God's Work Our Hands" Sunday. [We'll worship at 9:30 ... and then head off to work project sites.] The council also decided to set the summer 2018 worship schedule as one service at 9:00am.
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From Pastor Steve: In the days (long, long ago) when I was a backpack guide, we had a practice of finding moments during our hikes where we would stop and admire some wonder of creation. Perhaps it was a small plant. Perhaps it was the beautiful vista. Always it was accompanied by wonder and often with the phrase, "Yay, God". We called them: God Moments. During the week gone by, I had a God Moment that has stuck with me. I was so happy to receive the invitation to sing songs and play my guitar for the VBS kids. The group was so cute, so full of positive energy..pure joy. A real fun bunch to lead. One song I led was called, "I've got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart." One little girl had heard it before and interrupted my teaching the song to tell me we should say the...
Read MoreThe church council has been in the process of contemplating a change to the fall worship schedule and for the last several weeks they have been seeking congregational input during the worship service through a small survey on the back of the connection cards. The options being considered, and the results of the service are: (a) change the schedule to 9:00am & 10:30 am - which has received 61 votes; or (b) maintain our current 8:30am & 10:30 am service time - which has received 31 votes. These statistics were arrived at by removing duplicate votes (from people who were present on multiple Sundays). There are many things to consider about this change. Some of the chief considerations is that a later start-time will stem the burn-out of our music personnel and wi...
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