No. 16: Another Week Begins...

And it's gonna be a busy one.

But first, I gotta tell you how Easter Service went. It was awesome! I don't believe I'm exagerating either. If you'll recall,  I was worried about how to make the old VFW hall look, you know, Easter-ish. Well, it took a ton of crepe paper and lilies, but we managed to transform that big brown nothing into a joyful house of worship.

Sheila was right (as usual) the food had a lot to do with it. As soon as you opened the door, the aroma of coffee lured you inside, straight to a long table filled with the most cheerful Easter cookies you ever saw. Looked like something out of Martha Stewart's magazine.

Since we don't have a regular pastor yet, our elders take turns leading Sunday services. Yesterday, Sheila's Charlie was up to bat. For those of you who don't know Charlie, he's no public speaker. Oh, he'll talk to you about your car all day, he's just not comfortable in front of a group. Simple is Charlie's strength, so that's what he went with; he read the resurrection story from scripture, told it in short bits between music played by Alexis Martin.

I know I gripe a lot about Alexis - sometimes I'd like to take my shoe off and hit her with it - but I have to admit, when she's on, she's on. We are fortunate to have the finest pianist on Deer Mountain in our congregation... and she has an ego to go with it, but I won't go there today.

Oh, the numbers. The service was p.a.c.k.e.d. We had visitors, too! Some of our regulars brought guests. A young family drove over from Cozy (yes, it's a place) they had five of the sweetest kids I've ever seen. Ginger, every one. And we had visiting tourists, too - a retired couple from Denver and a young couple from Missouri, I think. Missouri or Minnesota or Michigan - one of those "M" states. Doug and Laura were their names... I remember because she was so pretty - as in, she-should-be-in-movies pretty. They heard our ad on KDPO, so we know the advertising is working. :) 

Ginny Todd took a gazillion pictures for the church scrap book. We thought it would be fun to scrapbook the life of our church. I know it's only a few months old and we don't have a building yet, but we added another milestone to the pages yesterday.

After Service, we went to On the Main for dinner, then back to Charlie and Sheila's for a made-from-scratch coconut cake. Sheila is an awesome cook!

I hope your Easter was just as perfect as ours.

Shine on -