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A pic from one of the bathrooms I cleaned during "Church Is A Verb" Sunday.

We had worship at 9 AM, then followed it with a "sending out" at 10 AM.  We were engaged in several "verb-like" activities.

• A "Bathroom Brigade" went out with cleaning buckets to clean bathrooms in area businesses, just because we love them.
• Children, with adult leaders, were unleashed on Forest Fair Park and the playground to collect garbage...and were rewarded with an unscheduled trip to the Ice Cream Shop.
• Our "Cookie Flingers" went out into the community with about 130 bags of homemade cookies with notes inside saying "Just a simple way to share the love."  This is something we do several times a year.
• We had persons working on a mosaic on a planter along Alyeska Highway.
• We had food being collected for our Food Pantry at the Crow Creek Mercantile and we had food being distributed at the Chapel.
• Back at the church, several persons stayed behind and textured the walls of the Narthex to get them ready for primer this week.
• We had a small change in schedule as we had originally hoped to be cutting wood for a local person in need.  That, however, will have to wait.

Overall, it was an awesome day.  What a blessing it is to go out in the community and just "love" it in acts of service.

See pics below.

Love, Love, Love, Love, Love...

“Love, love, love. Jesus made prostitutes feel valued, outcasts feel accepted, the religiously condemned feel justified, the lost feel at home, the broken feel whole, the heavy burdened feel free, the thirsty feel refreshed. How did he do it? He did it by loving them.” via

A post from over at Indexed.

Image by crunklygill via FlickrText:  2 Corinthians 8:1-15 & John 13:31-25
Title:  “Simple Stewardship:  Simply Serve”

A little over a month ago I went into the Alaska United Methodist Conference office with Sheila _______ (our money person) and Steve _______ (our “building” person).  To meet with Dave _______ and Leila _______ (our Conference Leadership Persons).  We met with them to talk about our church finances, which, the farther along we’ve been getting in our construction without actually occupying the building, the harder it’s been.  And we knew that this year, as we were looking at what we’ve had on our plate to get heat and start worshipping over there, it was becoming more and more evident that our “income” wasn’t meeting up with out “outgo.” 

And we’ve tried to be honest and forthcoming here.  The longer we’ve had to wait for construction to finish, we’ve been paying bills for a building we’ve not been able to occupy.  And we could see that it was going to get a little too close for comfort as we got to the second half of this year and into the beginning next year as we’ve had some large chunks of money due at one time while giving has gone down a bit.