Only in America can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
Only in America do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back
of the store to get their prescriptions, while healthy people can buy
cigarettes at the front.
Only in America do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries and a
DIET coke.
Only in [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Only in America…
June 30, 2008We have her….
June 29, 2008We have her…. , originally uploaded by cathyse97.
Madison Covenant pastors Jim and Cathy, are holding the little daughter they adopted yesterday in China! God bless the three of them and give them a safe trip back home!
My Good Dudes
June 29, 2008Matt and Ed worked with me in the Orientation Classes. We were happy to get through it together! These guys are brilliant and fun to be with. Covenanters with a future!
THE MOST IMPORTANT FREEDOM
June 29, 2008 Patrick Henry was a famous statesman and orator of colonial Virginia. In 1764 he was elected to the House of Burgesses where he became a champion of the frontier people, supporting their rights against the arrogant exercise of power by the aristocracy. In 1774 he was a delegate to the First Continental Congress.
In 1775, before [...]
Poem
June 28, 2008A pastor in the Covenant from thje Seattle area sent me this poem of Friday morning…
“For Heaven’s Sake”
You’ve been ordained to bait a hook
to search for coins in every nook
to leave the fold to seek the lost
to fish for souls whate’er the cost
To leave your boat and look to Him
to hear Him call your name [...]
Finally!
June 27, 2008Finally, I have both feet firmly planted as a Covenant pastor! Last night, in one of the biggest tents with air-conditioning in the world, my transfer of ordination was completed. Having Kathy with me through the day was so terrific. Over 70 people were transfered, commissioned, consecrated, or ordained! We were all given a leather bound Oxford [...]
Big Week!
June 24, 2008This morning I am on a significant juncture in a 36 year pilgrimage. I return to the sacred place where I first heard God’s call on my life for ministry back in 1972. Green Lake Conference Center is where I will be Tuesday through Thursday for the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church. I [...]
Good Times…
June 23, 2008Kathy brother, Jeff, leans over to look at a scrap book in his wife, Ginger’s, arms.
Letitia looks on.
Kirsten, our niece makes a comment as a cute 16 year-old can do.
Kathy, Ginger, and Letitia chuckle about some stroy from the past!
Tim, Jeff, and Eric also have a laugh about something. It is the fist time being [...]
Sunday Party
June 22, 2008Jeff and family are on the way here from Milwaukee. Tim and Letitia are in Two Rivers and will be here when Aunt Frieda comes over. I think I need to start frying brats – I checked the radar and it looks like more “Pop-corn” type cloud bursts are on the way! But it is [...]
Hail Hail…
June 21, 2008Tim Newlin tries to catch some hail during the rain/hail storm that fell in our bacckyard this afternoon. It was really some wild weather – but only briefly, thank God!
