Sunday, February 24, 2008

church and birthday party

First, Don has felt good all day... in rare form, actually. Only late this afternoon, he began to tire a little. But no headache! Praise the Lord.



That's the problem with this lifestyle: you meet wonderful people, grow to love them and then they have to leave. But who knows, we may run into them again down the road. The most important thing is that if we never see them in this life again, we see them in heaven. So this week we say goodbye to our pianist Audrey and her husband Jerry Robb, Harold & Susan Keefer, Ardith and Rod Rehfeld and a few other couples who have been coming to worship service with us. The present point is: we treasure the blessing that our paths crossing has been to us and we are going to miss them very much.


Ardith joined our worship team for just one Sunday. Today she blessed us with her glorious smile and beautiful alto voice. The team (Susan Keefer, Ardith, myself and Harold Keefer) sang a special - "It Took a Miracle." [YIKES! (sudden realization sets in) Everyone in this picture will be gone next Sunday. Rick Fury, PLEASE be all well.] You guys should feel really bad for deserting us. For more than one reason, however, we will miss all of them very much. Thank God for email and cell phones... we will stay in touch.Audrey, our pianist, has not been feeling well the last couple of weeks. JoAnne Miller has filled in at the piano AND the organ and is doing a wonderful job. We are praying that Audrey is well soon. It's no fun traveling when you don't feel good. Please pray for all in the park who are sick. There's a virus or flu that's going around.We appreciate all these who help make our worship experience meaningful. JoAnne & Audrey also provided cinnamon rolls and muffins for our after-church fellowship. John Budd & Don visit. This afternoon, we were finally able to have Rick's birthday party. It was scheduled for last Sunday, but Rick has been so sick, the party had to be postponed until today. It was great to see him out and being his mischievious self. We all had a good time of fellowship and food. Thank you, Rick, for sharing the wonderful cherry cheese cake that Wendy made for you.... again. We enjoyed getting to know Cathy and Jack a little better. They hail from the KC, Mo. area.


Ahh, there's DeAnn all kicked back and relaxed under her new, stylish hat. Not a care in the world. She has a whole week ahead of her with no JOB to do. Poor baby. And then, toward the end of the week, her knight in shining armor is going to ride in and rescue her, whisking her off to adventures unknown, kicking and screaming, I'm sure. Did I say, "poor baby?" She had much rather be here working as our activities director. Hey Barb, don't you just love this shot of you and Darrell with food in your mouth? You're still pretty and Darrell is still.... funny.

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