5/15/2010

It’s been a busy weeks at the Power House in Baltimore, Maryland.

It started out Sunday with Morning Worship. This Mothers Day marked one year since we began the conversion from printing song lyrics in the bulletin to projecting them on screen.

During Kids’ Church we made Mothers Day gifts. The kids made picture frames while I printed off photos of them that we took after the day's lesson.

Our monthly Priesthood Meeting was Sunday evening. We hadn’t met in April and we had a lot of material to cover. Much of our time was spent on synchronizing the summer calendar. We then spent quite some time reviewing current issues and long-term vision.

On Monday I returned the keyboard to Charlotte. Traffic on the Washington Beltway was relatively clear so I was able to have lunch with the whole Holiday family before driving home.

72 kids participated in Wednesday’s SonRisers activities. Later that morning while I was trying to retrieve and save information from the church’s nearly twelve-year-old computer, I got a call from the manager of the recently closed Staples store. She had materials to donate to the church. When I got there in my van I saw that it wouldn’t hold everything so I called Woody. He came over in his pickup and we filled both it and my van with supplies ranging from pens and paperclips to filing cabinets and tables.

Wednesday evening was time for the NA meeting and the Mid-Week Service. Afterward, a few of us sorted through some of the Staples donation and discovered some real treasures.

Gloria spent some time on Thursday trying to track down an elderly friend of the church who we hadn’t seen in a few weeks. She was able to learn that he had been hospitalized and had been released. Since we’re not family, confidentiality rules blocked her from finding more information. The man has no other local family members so he’ll be missing to us until he makes contact.

Throughout the week we spent time tracking down parents in search of signatures on camp forms. We were able to get a couple but spent most of the time knocking on the doors of empty houses.

Friday night brought Pizza Church. Torrential rain impacted who could walk to church that evening. Some of those who did come acted as if they had never seen rain before.

Saturday started graduation season. Tamara graduated from Loyola with a Masters Degree in Pastoral Counseling. Her ceremonies were in downtown Baltimore.

The reason this newsletter is coming out a few hours early is that I’m headed to the airport to catch a flight to the Midwest. Donald’s commencement ceremonies are on Sunday in Lamoni, Iowa, and I’ll be going to celebrate with him.

Looking ahead to next week we have our full schedule of activities. Since I’m out of town Gloria will preside at Morning Worship at 11:00 a.m. and our monthly Celebration Service at 6:00 p.m. Vonceil will take the reigns at Kids’ Church. Sarah is the speaker in the morning and will stay for Kids’ Church, too. In addition, our Narcotics Anonymous group is hosting a marathon session (from noon - 8:00 p.m.) next Saturday. That evening is our monthly Sundae Church.

Along with the individuals and activities mentioned, please keep the following families in the forefront of your prayers:

The Alexander Family
The Ramirez Family
The Knight Family
The Murphy Family
The Martz Family
The Howe Family
The Wagner Family
The Epps Family

Thank you for your continued prayer support.

Jeff and everyone at
The Power House
“Building the Kingdom of God Here and Now”
PowerHouseMD@Juno.com
www.pigtownchurch.org
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