I can’t believe I haven’t blogged about this great service before today. Please forgive me for not blogging sooner!
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Thanks Scott for trying to show me something new only to realize that your ‘ol pal Stevan had been holding out on you!
According to news reports, a gunman entered New Life Church yesterday afternoon at about 1 p.m. and shot five people, killing sisters age 16 and 18, before being shot and killed by armed security.
Apparently the same man entered the Youth With A Mission (YWAM) office earlier that day and killed 2-others!
Please join me in praying for those involved in these tragic events.
More info on the church’s website.
This weekend we enjoyed a special visit from our friends, John & Danielle Freed!
John was the youth pastor here at Our Savior’s up until about a year-and-a-half ago and is now ministering at Fall Creek Wesleyan in Fishers, Indiana.
It is always great to reconnect with friends that we don’t get many opportunities to visit with! Jess and I had them over this morning for some home-grown breakfast and time to just visit together. It was a great morning even though I didn’t have much of a voice!
Last night at SNL one of my students showed me her new cell phone that she received in her stocking!
“Your stocking?”, I asked.
“Yes, my stocking!”, she replied.
“It’s December 9th, did you know that?”, I asked.
“Yah, I got it in my St. Nick’s stocking!”, she replied.
“Your what?”, I asked.
Thus I was introduced to “St. Nick’s” – a Wisconsin-tradition that I had never heard about before last night! More information here on Wikipedia.
So after my introduction to “St. Nick’s Day”, I happened to hear about another German-tradition familiar in most Wisconsin-homes called “Hide The Pickle”. An interesting title for an interesting tradition.
I laughed about these traditions last night and this morning happened to open an early Christmas gift from one of our students’ mothers and what’dya know – we are now the proud owners of a glass pickle ready for hiding! More on the Christmas Pickle tradition which seems to actually be a mythical German tradition and actually an American tradition here on Wikipedia.
01. rock tumbler
02. book with a secret compartment
03. treehouse
04. potato cannon
05. baseball bat
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UPDATE 12.08.07 | 3:30PM
#2 is now complete.
