Good morning!
It was nice to see attendance on Sunday back up close to normal – our average for February was down by some fifty people because of three Sunday mornings with at least light snow. I saw a church sign on Kipling that read, “If you’re praying for snow, please stop!”
Our focus at 8:30 and 11:00 this Sunday will be on “Jesus, the Healer” and what that means for our lives. The choir will be singing the popular “On Eagles Wings” in the 8:30 service, and our 11:00 service will be our annual preschool Sunday (probably our best-attended 11:00 service of the year), featuring several songs from our preschool children and the opportunity to welcome many preschool families to our worship. The adult Bible class will discuss chapter 25 of “The Story.” Mars Hill at 9:00 continues its series on “192 Hours” with a message from Gregg entitled “Let’s Make a Deal.”
In the area of outreach at Concordia, several projects are in the works – a new and attractive visitors’ packet that should be completed before Palm Sunday; new “business cards” for folks making quick visits on newcomers to our community (following up on the two postcards that are already being sent to new move-ins); and a printed tool that you can use to invite friends to join you for Palm Sunday, Holy Week and Easter worship.
The national start-up of the “LifeTree Café” has been postponed (thankfully) to the first week in May. Starting this week you may be able to detect some signs of that project in the Garden Level room, which will be used for the Thursday evening LifeTree presentations. Since this is a franchise arrangement with Group Publishing, there are a number of requirements that need to be met in order provide a warm and welcoming atmosphere for the coffee-house style discussions. Beginning in May there will be seven new LifeTree Cafés in six states across the country. Our local team is working hard to prepare us for the opening in May.
Our next blood drive at Concordia will be on Wednesday, March 31st. Check out the Chatter (http://www.concordialcms.org/chatter/chatter.pdf), Sunday’s bulletin, or the wall poster in the narthex for more information.
The ROCK continues to work on its Charity:Water project. This Sunday you’ll hear about something from them that might just “change” your life!
The Board of Elders is still looking for a volunteer to tend the nursery on Easter Sunday. If you would like to do that, or if you would be willing to attend one service and then spend the other service in the nursery, please contact Bob Schmidt. It is very important that we have someone available to help in the nursery on that day – if you can help, please contact Bob or reply to this email.
Gail is preparing for us a “Concordia Yellow Pages” and would like to have your business or offer of help listed in the new directory. The past directories have included Avon, Mary Kay, sewing and alterations, artists, candle sales, car sales, furniture repair, piano lessons, child care and babysitting, math tutors, repair work, snow shoveling, janitorial, hair dressers and all kinds of services. If you have a business or service to offer, get your information to Gail before March 15th. Forms for the directory information can be found on the welcome table in the narthex, or Gail’s email address is
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Oh, by the way – I received a number of “oxymorons” this week and thought I’d share a few of them with you –
Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?
If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?
Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?
Why does "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?
Why do "tug" boats push their barges?
Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game" when we are already there?
Why are they called "stands" when they are made for sitting?
Why is it called "after dark" when it really is "after light"?
Why do they call it a TV set when you only have one?
Love ya!
Tom
