5/9/2010

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

It started out Sunday with Communion at Morning Worship. Bill Brian and some young adults from his area came down to participate. Because we had the keyboard at the church one of them played it for a prelude and then played and sang during the serving of communion.

After lunch we set up for Kids’ Church. Bill taught the lesson and everyone worked together on the craft. Though there was a small group of kids, two of the new kids from the week before returned.

That evening the Arundel Singers arrived in the neighborhood for their spring concert. We had a sparse crowd for the audience but those who were there seemed to enjoy themselves quite a lot.

We started brainstorming about Bible School this week. It actually started with a lightening bolt when Charlotte called with an idea about a possible activity this summer. Over the course of the week Tamara and I came up with quite a few good ideas for themes and projects.

101 kids and a few adults participated in SonRisers on Wednesday morning. As usual, we started out with 168 donuts. When we closed the door we had 4 left.

We had a neighbor who needed some community service hours for the courts. She arranged to come by Wednesday morning so she and I tackled the storage closet. She was an amazing worker and we got miraculous amounts of work done. She’s coming back the next few Wednesday mornings as well to tackle some other projects.

That evening after the NA meeting we had our Mid-Week service. We only have a few more weeks of this activity until it goes on summer vacation.

We were in communication this week with World Service Corps. They’re going to be placing two young adult volunteers here for the month of August.

We also spent some time this week hammering out the details of the summer calendar. A few events are landing on the calendar a little differently than in recent years so it’s taking some shuffling to make things work smoothly.

I spent the day on Friday at InJOY’s Chick-fil-a Leadercast. A church out by the airport was the host site.

I got out of the event in time to set up for Pizza Church. When we got in the building it was full of thousands of bugs. Though they were all over the building, so many were by the back door that birds were looking through the glass trying to get in for the buffet. Fortunately, the bug spray we had was quick in doing its job.

The three Pizza Church sessions went well. I taught the first two groups and Tamara led the discussions for the senior high kids.

We spent some time on Saturday trying to track down signatures for camp forms. The time wasn’t as productive as hoped as we only got one additional kids signed up. One mom, though, came to the church at the start of Solid Rock and got the forms signed for her two kids.

We had a good group for our monthly Solid Rock Café on Saturday night. Tamara brought a new game and Sarah helped some kids learn how to play ping pong.

Looking ahead to next week we have our full schedule of activities. In addition, we have our monthly Priesthood Meeting on Sunday night. We’re hoping to make connections throughout the week to do things ranging from returning the keyboard to meeting with the principal of the charter school that’s moving into the former middle school. We’ll be working in the church on Wednesday with our community service hours volunteer. Throughout the week we’ll be tracking down signatures for camp forms. Next Saturday night I’m flying out to the Midwest to attend Donald’s graduation from Graceland University.

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

The Coleman Family
The Davis Family
The Mills Family
The Burke Family
The Grimes Family
The Williams Family
The Glover Family
The Breyer 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 http://thisweekatthepowerhouse.blogspot.com/