Monthly Archives: October 2007

The table is set.  The numbers are calculated.

Tomorrow  at 8:30 we start. 

The mayor, council, ministerial and interested community members will be there.  The breakast is fairly basic.  The discussion will be outside of basic.

We will talk about who we are, what this town is about and how we can pray best to see righteousness, goodness and a welcoming atmosphere in this town. 

I’m still amazed.  The mayor and council are in unanimous support of this effort.  The ministerial are willing to run this event evven if there is a financial shortfall.

My faith is that this will push a pebble, that moves a rock, that stirs an ocean, that changes a world.  May the unusual from God’s hand be poured out on us.

On Saturday we are trying out a Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast.  A great idea — and with every idea comes the need to planning and just plain pitching in.  I’ve been in charge of making tickets available to the churches around town.

The expected attendance will be around 40.  The ministerial sponsoring the event will probably come out a little shy of the cost for the event.  But I keep getting the same responses — "this is our first time — its a start."

So, Saturday morning at 8:30 we will gather.  As ministers in this town, along with all who gather, we will pray for community leadership.  We will pray for wisdom, for justice, for righteousness.  We will take seriously scripture passages that tell us to pray for our leadership.  At the end we will all pray together for a  blessing on our community leadership.

May God bless!

Our internet service provider technician was out today.

We are supposedly working at proper speeds.  I boosted our service up to high speed.  Tried out the speed and something is still wrong.  Will do some further checking tomorrow.

Until then, we have come home from a full evening and are relaxing before hitting the sack.

Now, there is a statement.  Hitting the sack?  Is this an exercise we should all participate in before sleep?  Sack hitting should rank right up there with sacking out for the night.  And is the sack a burlap sack, or just a plain paper sack?  Who ranks the sack as to its efficacy in this situation?  Should we all look for sacks wherever we go? 

Perhaps if we lived in sack land we would all find that we are no longer sacked out, just petered out.  And what is "petered out" all about.  Does this relate to salt peter — and the salt no longer is salty?  Or does this have to do with the Peter of the Bible who seemed to have days that he just wore out?

All these questions.  And I won’t even be surprised if you don’t answer a single one of them!!!

The past few days I’ve been off line.

Our service provider is having trouble providing us with internet service.  The download and upload speeds have been horrendous.  Technical service will be out next week on Tuesday.

Hopefully this blog will make it into cyberspace!  See you next week!