Mission House Permit

This afternoon the Sheboygan City Plan Commission voted to allow Zion a conditional use permit for the Mission House!
Praise be to God!  No neighbors of our church spoke against us this time around.  In fact three neighbors spoke for us getting the permit!
So prayers for reconciliation have been answered.  Now we can use the Mission House [...]

Recpite

Today was more “normal” as a Sunday with sunny skies, melting snow and ice and people able to get to worship and Sunday School etc.
The women had a “Women Ministries Luncheon” kick off to share what the Covenant Church’s Women Ministry project is this year – “Human Trafficking.”  Kathy attended along with twenty other women [...]

Teamwork

This story originally appeared in the play, “Some Folks Feel the Rain.”A man was lost while driving through the country. As he tried to reach for the map, he accidentally drove off the road into a ditch. Though he wasn’t injured, his car was stuck deep in the mud. So the man walked to a [...]

Socks Happy Kids!

Michelle said that 254 pairs of socks were given by Zion members for Sheridan school! Way to go people!
Here is one of her kindergarteners enjoying a simple new pair of socks!

 

Socks for Sheridan

I was talking with Michelle as she was ushering at church on Sunday.  Michelle is a kindergarten teacher at one of our city’s low income level schools – Sheridan.  Michelle told me that many of the students come to school wearing no socks.  So we made an announcement in worship enlisting the compassion of our [...]

Coffee

I created my own personal blend of coffee at Dean’s Beans. It is labeled, “LAKEVIEW a Blogger’s Brew. 

Global Mission

 
THE STATUS OF GLOBAL MISSION IN 2007
Every year Prof. David Barrett, editor of the World Christian Encyclopaedia, and Todd Johnson of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, publish their Status of Global Mission. Through incorporating secular as well as church-based sources this is probably one of the most comprehensive databases in the world.
The Status of Global Mission shows [...]

Survey says…

LONDON – A poll conducted for the British Broadcasting Corp.’s new The Big Questions show found that four in five people believe Britain is in moral decline.
According to the survey of 1,000 people, only nine percent disagreed that moral standards were falling, reports the BBC.
Religion still kept its place of importance, however, with 62 percent [...]

Hostage Hassles

Taliban May Free All Remaining Korean Hostages Today
This combination photo released from The Christian Post shows 7 South Korean hostages who are still being held captive by the Taliban in Afghanistan as of August 29, 2007. Taliban insurgents freed 12 South Korean hostages in Afghanistan on Wednesday, a day after reaching a deal with Korean [...]

Bigger Vision

James D. Bell, associate dean of the business school at Southwest State University, gave a 1996 commencement address in which he told this story:
It was noon, in the South. It was summer, it was hot, and two men were working in a railroad yard. They were swinging eight pound sledgehammers, driving spikes into railroad ties. [...]