Moment of Contact September Newsletter
August 29, 2013
Volume 39, Issue 10
God’s Time and School Time It’s time for my annual article on God’s time and school time. When I left my apartment on Outer Drive last week and drove to the stoplight at Cheyenne, I knew that it was school time! I also thank God that I don’t have to pick up kids in the parking lots at schools as I read about the new elementary school at the Hoover School site and parking issues related to the new school. However, I know parents and kids were thanking God for something else. The hearts of parents and kids, teachers and administrators were all beating just a bit faster in anticipation of a new school year. It is school time. In God’s time the most important act is God forgiving our sins, feeding us the Bread of Life and inviting us into God’s time in which we find life in a way which never ends. We are free to live life reconciled to God and others. We are free to begin life renewed instead of imprisoned to our past actions and failures. What God’s time does is give us a glimpse of God’s time in our everyday time. Perhaps the closest thing to this neverending day which brings life in the culture today is school time. It’s school time again, and school time is a time of mixed emotions: of growing up and growing old, of grieving the loss of the past and looking forward with great excitement to the future. School Time is one of those explicit times in our culture when nearly everyone is experiencing a taste of what God’s Time is like everyday. Everyday God invites us to reflect on the past with its experiences of joys and sorrows and through God’s mercy and grace give thanks for the past and look forward to a new day. Those two kinds of time are connected in our church community as we begin our fall programs. There are additional new things going on at Church with the projects from our recent Capital Campaign in progress and Saturday Night Worship moving to Wednesday Night. With all these new things happening, we have a great opportunity to reflect on our past and to have a fresh start in our fall programs this year. Take special note in this newsletter of all the opportunities for experiencing God’s time and School time this year at First Lutheran. Pastor Wicks
The corn is over for another year and it was our most successful year ever! $4,073.85 was our grand total. Thanks so much to Dewey and Rhonda Reeder for buying and planting the seed and raising the corn for us. Thank you to everyone that picked, sold, and bought. Without people to help us out we would never make it.
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biggest thank you goes to Larry LeClair who goes above and beyond his duties. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Larry!!