MONDAY, 12/30/13
On the prayer point today – Ronnie Baggett, Ann Clark, Danny Lewis. jack@danvillebaptist.org P.O. Box 70 Danville, AL 35619
Miss Camp e-mailed me yesterday to let me know that Carolyn Blaylock is in the hospital. She has a touch of pneumonia and fluid in her lungs. Pray for her.
I have not gotten any reports but I assume (pray) that everything went well in our morning service yesterday. I am confident that Wes did a nice job of preaching the Word. Thank you to each member of the Friendship family who attended that service.
The church office is open today, tomorrow, and Thursday of this week. It should be “all hands on deck” with the exception of me as no one else is on vacation. The ministerial staff are available from 8:00AM – 12:00PM and 1:00 – 4:30PM each of those three days and the office will be open until 5:00PM. (Obviously, the office will be closed on Wednesday for New Year’s Day) Once again this week, no services, classes, Bible studies, et cetera on Wednesday.
Lisa, Dana, Gina, & I attended the morning service at the Fraser Valley Baptist Church which is a few miles west of the WP resort. I was amazed and pleased at the difference a year makes. This family of believers had gone three years without a pastor before calling Pastor Dustin in July of this year. If I remember correctly, there were about 15 – 18 folks present at the morning service in December of last year. Yesterday, there were around 85 folks in attendance – praise the Lord. It was a good service and we enjoyed it very much. IMO, there is no church family like the Friendship family but it is always good for me to see how other churches worship. Thank you for affording us the opportunity.
We awoke to 9.5 inches of fresh fallen snow and then got to watch it snow for an hour or so. Absolutely beautiful. God cares about even the little things in our lives as I hoped (not prayed) it would snow while we were here even though the weather folks said, “no way.” God is good! Our skiing was cut to half a day but God surely blessed us with good snow!
I have had one major problem thus far on this trip. A young man working the Zephyr lift on Saturday afternoon, a young lady worker in the pizza place here in the resort on Saturday night, and a young lady attending the church service yesterday morning all shared one thing in common. Let me explain – the young man asked me what the elephant on my hat stood for and I simply said “Alabama” to which he replied, “I’m Auburn.” (He graduated from AU last May); Lisa and I are standing against the wall in the pizza place waiting on our “to go” order when the young lady comes from behind the counter and says, “I cannot let you stand against the wall of our business wearing an Alabama jacket without saying “War Eagle!”; the young lady in church this morning (she works with Young Life which is a good thing) comes in carrying an AU coffee mug. Folks, they are everywhere I go and they seek me out! Could this be my thorn? LOL! (Life is so much more than a ballgame) However, I am going to deck the next one who speaks to me! (In Christian love of course!)
Hated to see the Cowboys lose last night – not! Romo or Orton have proven that they can find a way to lose the game late. Seeing Jerry Jones leave his suite in disgust last night was priceless. Why do I not like the Cowboys? Two words – Tom Landry! He got a raw deal in my opinion. Landry forgot more about football than Jones will ever know. Now, Jones is a great businessman. (Reminds me of Joey Switzer) He just is not a football man!
I pray that you will have a great Monday with Jesus.