Concordia Lutheran Church

Good evening!

I have “Jesus Power” on my mind this week – the 120-plus kids of our Vacation Bible School this week have been yelling those two words all week long, as they have been learning about the power of Jesus for their lives. Our special thanks for the hard work of our VBS directors Gregg and Angie, along with that of all of the staff for the week. Some of the VBS kids will be singing in the 8:30 service this Sunday, and we’ll show a brief video of our VBS in both morning services.

This Saturday (June 14^th) is our family work day at Concordia. Just as families all need to work together to accomplish the various family tasks, the same is very true of our church family at Concordia. Won’t you please help the rest of your church family take care of some of the little tasks that need to be accomplished around the church, both inside and outside? The work starts around 8 AM (or whenever you can get here), and lunch will be served at noon.

The family movie night scheduled for Friday evening has been postponed until September, so don’t come looking for a movie and popcorn this week!

I’m in need of three or four young men (you may define “young” as you wish) to help move one of our newer members, Bernice Avila, to a new apartment. Her family will have a U-Haul, so all we need is several people to help with the move on Saturday morning, June 28^th. If you can help, please drop me a note by replying to this Tablet, or call the church office and let us know.

Our annual high school mission trip begins this Saturday morning. Please remember in prayer our Concordia young people and their counselors who will be traveling to Ogden, Utah, where they will be “Loving Out Loud” through home repair and service: Nick Baumgartner, Peter Baumgartner, Ben Dennis, Laura Enger, Peter Erickson, Dallas Greer, Brienna Jarrell, Amelie Lanning, Kim Matthews, Emily McCaslin, Amber Schmidt, Annie Vlosich, Jennifer Craig, Ellen Waterman and Gregg McCaslin,

I will be in Indiana with our family next Wednesday through Saturday, so don’t expect a Tablet next week.

Oh, by the way – this is a list of comments from test papers, essays, etc., submitted to science and health teachers by elementary, junior high, high school, and college students. It is truly astonishing what weird science our young scholars can create under the pressures of time and grades. The spellings are the original ones.

1. H2O is hot water, and CO2 is cold water.
2. To collect fumes of sulphur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube.
3. When you smell an oderless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide.
4. Water is composed of two gins, Oxygin and Hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is water and gin.
5. A super saturated solution is one that holds more than it can hold.
6. Liter: A nest of young puppies.
7. Magnet: Something you find crawling all over a dead cat.
8. Momentum: What you give a person when they are going away.
9. Vacuum: A large, empty space where the pope lives.
10. Artificial insemination is when the farmer does it to the cow instead of the bull.
11. The pistol of the flower is its only protection against insects.
12. A fossil is an extinct animal. The older it is, the more extinct it is.
13. To remove dust from the eye, pull the eye down over the nose.
14. For a nosebleed: Put the nose much lower that the heart until the heart stops.
15. For head colds: use an agonizer to spray the nose until it drops in your throat.
16. Germinate: To become a naturalized German.
17. The tides are a fight between the Earth and moon. All water tends towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight.
18. Blood flows down one leg and up the other.

Love ya!

Tom