You know there are 168 hours in a week. You just don’t know where they all go. So…why not take one of those hours you don’t what you did with and give it over to God?

Really. Why not? There are men’s groups Sat am @7 at the DQ in Prospect and 7 pm @ Java on Thursdays. Talk to Bill Parker or Jim Morse or Joe Taylor or Dave Jennings….

At home on Fridays? Women meet at noon for lunch and a great time of sharing around the book of the month. Talk to Carolyn Wade or Ann Hart or Melanie Winkle…

No good TV on Tuesdays? Join us at 7 for the Max Lucado ‘Fearless’ DVD study, complete with light dessert. Talk to Jim Morse or Jody Arthur or Iva Morse….

In need of prayer and support Wednesday morning? Our prayer group meets at 9 am for prayer and a devotional time on spiritual growth. Talk to Sherry Parker or Pastor Susan…

Oct 30th-Fall Festival —Old Fashioned Community Halloween Celebration

November 7th-Susannah Wesley Annual Chili Dinner and Auction

November 8th-Charge Conference

Our Youth leaders are planning a Friday-Saturday Youth work mission trip through our friends at EDGE in Louisville for one of the weekends in October. This would be a great time for our middle school and high schoolers, as well as their parents, to join in a time of work and fun and prayer as we become the hands and feet of Jesus to our community.

Let’s just say Harriet wasn’t a natural for road trips.  In fact, if you didn’t practically knock her out she wouldn’t even make it to the bridge out of Manhattan.  But she was our Harriet, even if my father did refer to as a ‘varmit dog’ (translation:  good only for chasing varmits).  So, each year  we’d give her doggie Dramamine, put her in the back set and head out of town.  About 250 miles out, we’d hear Harriet bound up in the back seat, panting enthusiastically and stick her head up front.  “Where ya been, where ya been, where ya been?” her look clearly communicated.  Where have we been?  You’re the one who’s been out like a light for 4 hours, dear.

Well, it became one of our family phrases.  “Where ya been?” we’d say on those occasions when someone missed that they were the one who’d checked out on the conversation.  It’s   often struck me that I’m the same way with God.  “Where ya been?” I keep asking when I’m the one who’s checked out in my prayer life, my listening, my willingness to act on what God has already shown me.  “Where ya been?” I ask, when I’m the one who’s been asleep in the back seat.

Pentecost is the time in the church year when we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit on all of Jesus’ followers, then and now.  It’s a time when we will reaffirm our baptisms in a service of music, Scripture and the water of baptism.  We will acknowledge that God has not gone anywhere since our baptisms;  it is we who may have moved away or grown discouraged.  It is we who need to wake up, shake ourselves off and welcome again the Spirit of God who has never left us. 

Join us for a celebration of our

 One God, One Faith, One Baptism

Pentecost, May 31st at 11:00 am

Wear something red !

June 21-25th

Experience first-century Rome, chat with shopkeepers, tiptoe past Roman guards…and visit with the Apostle Paul.  Watch for more news in later posts.