Today was the kick off for all of the fall programming at our son's church. Schools started last week, vacations are done, and people are getting into the swing for the coming season.
For Dan and Jen it meant getting lots of things off the ground and all that with only one car as their Buick has died and has rusted out so bad it can't be fixed. So that meant last night we had to set up our plan for transportation to get everyone where they needed to be using our car as the second one to make it all happen.
Noelle plays the keyboard for the Praise Team and Dan sings so they had to get to church to prepare for their part in the worship service. Dan, of course, had to do all the last minute things to prepare for worship and the after service programming plus a funeral today. Ken likes to sing with the choir which was singing for the first time this season so he had to be there early for practice. Jen needed to get last minute things in place for children's worship and the after worship Sunday School programming. I helped get some of the food ready for the brunch for the entire congregation that was going to follow worship.
It was wonderful to worship at Westminster, to see our 13 year old granddaughter playing the keyboard, enjoy all of the music some of which Dan provided with the worship team and Ken provided as a member of the choir. And of course it is always special to participate in worship with our son providing the leadership and preaching. There are some in the congregation who always go out of there way to speak with us and make us feel welcome too.
The brunch was wonderful and provided an opportunity to see slides pictures of so many of the members holding "Westie" - a picture of the church - at various vacation locations this summer and then hear from all the leaders of Sunday School programs, Teen and college programs, Women's and Men's programming sharing what will be happening this year. The importance of the older generation interacting with the younger generation was emphasized in many ways and there was much encouragement to interact with the community and carry the faith to it by both Word and deed. It was truly an energizing program!
During this brunch program Jen presented Bibles to the 5 1st graders who were in attendance. Two others were unable to make it. But it sure shows that the younger generation is alive and well in their church :-) As a n interesting side light, Sue (our daughter in North Carolina) posted on Facebook tonight that their church gave Bibles to all the first graders today as well and one was given in Aidan's memory (he would have been a first grader this year). It will be presented to a 1st grade child in the Christian Academy that meets daily at the church. What a loving a wonderful way to remember our grandchild!!!!!
Ken and I helped with some of the clean up and then brought the girls home. Jen stayed to finish some of her work, and Dan stayed behind to start working on the funeral that was later in the afternoon. So we let them all do their thing while Ken and I relaxed in our RV.
This evening while the girls were at the youth group meeting, Jen took Abbi shopping for some items she needs for their travel to Oregon so we took Dan out for an ice cream at Mazzanti's giving us a little time to relax with him. It was fun to go over and see that the ice cream Rachel suggested to the owners has been so popular this summer that it has been added to the regular menu with her name mentioned right there with the description of the flavor. Below is a picture of the menu - check out the "coffee dough ice cream"
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