Dear Family,
Summer Conference 2012 was outstanding. One should be careful calling anything “the
best ever” but if not, it was close!
Great preaching, great worship band, fun food, great attendance and
great time together after every service!
You can listen to the outstanding messages online or
purchase DVDs in the bookstore!
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Summer Conference – outstanding. Summer Camp – stellar. Summer attendance – way up over last
year. Summer giving – not so good. June saw our summer giving fall $45,000 below
our monthly need. SRPC members love to
give, but the summer travel season leads to a loss of regularity (in giving)! Please continue to support what God is doing
in and through SRPC even during the lazy, hazy days of summer.
· One young girl in our church is blessed with the
aid of a service dog. Thus, when she
attends church – so does her canine companion.
Service dog etiquette requires that no one pet the dog when the dog is
“working.” Petting the dog seems natural
and nice but it erodes the effectiveness of the dog’s aid. So please keep yours and your children’s paws
off the pooch!
· Steve Saint is making slow and steady progress
in rehab as he recovers from a severe spinal cord injury. You can watch the latest update here.
·
Parking Lot – our parking lots are being
resurfaced next week, July 16-20. It is
very important that cars not be left in any of our parking lots unattended. If you are not going to be on our campus
where we could reach you, please do not leave your car in the parking lot or we
will be forced to pave over it!
· Great article by my fav, Peggy Noonan, on the
wonder of the immigrant experience in America. “The old
hatreds. They dissipate here. In Ireland, Catholics and Protestants could
be at each other’s throats for centuries, but the minute they moved here, they
were in Kiwanis Club together. The
Mideast is a cauldron, but when its residents move here, they wind up on the
same PTA committee. It sounds
sentimental, but this is part of the magic of America, and the world still
knows it even if we, in our arguments, especially about immigration, forget.” Here’s the whole
article.
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Worship this weekend will be a blast – we’ll
sing, study Judges 8-9, take the Lord’s Supper,
watch a video on Camp Seven Rivers and best of all, be together with our
God. Don’t miss it!
Love,
Ray