5/8/2011

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

It started out Sunday with Morning Worship. We had exactly half as many people in attendance as we had on Easter Sunday, several of whom were not present on Easter. What would happen if everybody came at once? We started our series focusing on our purpose in this world.

At Kids' Church we reviewed the story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus. We had a corresponding coloring page and then a choice of a word search or maze to complete. Afterward some people came by for pastoral visiting and prayer.

By the way people parked, my van was blocked in the church parking lot on Monday morning when I was to take Onalee to school. I had to wake up a neighbor to get them to move out of the way.

101 kids participated in Wednesday's SonRisers program. We had a couple dozen donuts left over so we took them over to to the charter school for the staff.

We spent a chunk of the day working on getting invitations to camp and the corresponding forms ready. We're still fundraising and waiting on our grant funds but the forms are due soon so we have to move forward.

We did some work with the Peace Pavilion this week. We coordinated with Paul's Place for their after school program to come to "Peace for Everyone." We tried to set up times for "Peace for the Planet" with the School 34 but they had a fire in the building so that threw off their rhythm for the week. We also set up a new web site for it that you can see here.

That afternoon the NA group let me know that they may need to cancel their marathon they had scheduled for later this month. Our Mid-Week Service started reading "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" together.

Thursday's main focus was on camp. We spent time distributing invitations and then getting signatures from parents whose kids received their invitations last week. We had a couple families who had been to camp before that signed the forms at the same time they were given their invitation. ("Pastor, we don't need time to think about it. It's all they've talked about since last year and they are going. Can we just sign the forms now?")

The folks at Baltimore's Child left a message on our answering machine this week. They were wanting to publish information about this summer's Bible School program and wanted to make sure they had it right.

Friday night brought Pizza Church. We had large groups all night and ran short of pizza in the end. All groups did a quick review of the 10 Commandments. To open the discussion this Mother's day weekend, I asked which one of the commandments might be especially appropriate to remember this weekend. Though I hoped for "Honor your father and mother" as the answer, the first one given in one group was, "Do not murder."

We did quite a bit of running around on Saturday trying to get signatures on camp forms. We were generally unsuccessful until late that evening when we were able to track down one kid's mom.

Looking ahead to next week we have our full schedule of activities. In addition, we have our monthly Priesthood Meeting on Sunday evening. Next Saturday evening is our monthly Solid Rock Cafe.

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

The Stewart Family
The Carnes Family
The Shorter Family
The Ceo Family
The Ghaffar Family
The Burley Family
The Pettis Family
The Butler 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/