The next generation!

This past Friday was the 160th anniversary of the church we're attending in Olney IL. The church wanted to celebrate this anniversary in some special way in August. Retta & I are on the Deacon Oversite Team and this task was given to us, another Deacon and the Pastor & his wife.

We came up with the following items:
1. Put up a new church sign on Friday. (It was vandalized with spray paint and dented by kicking on Friday night. Currently, it is believed to be a current or recent church member who did it based on the way the vandalism was carried out). Our younger children's Sunday School classes made forgiveness and invitation posters on the sign Sunday, hoping the vandals will see them.
2. This past Sunday we recognized the oldest member of the church and the member who had attended for the longest time (72 years).
2. We sang many of the favorite hymns of the church including our "theme song" - Find Us Faithful
3. We had a special worship service (more on that in a bit)
4. Next Sunday we will have 3 (or more) outdoor lake baptisms.
5. In two weeks we will host a Anniversary Picnic for current and past attendees.

What I really wanted to post about was how proud I am of my 3 kids. For our "Special" worship service, eight kids from our youth group who recently attended a CIY:Move conference prepared and preached the sermon this Sunday. 3 of those kids were mine. They did an great job of teaching God's Word and challenging our congregation to step up and move forward. The message can be heard HERE. Our kids speak second (Amber), third (Christian), fourth (Christian's girlfriend Maddie), seventh (Amber's boyfriend James), eighth (Adrian).

Did I mention that I am so proud of my kids?

EDK