UPCOMING EVENTS

Secret Sister forms are on the back table for anyone who would like to join the next round.  This will run from January through June.  Give completed sheets to Bonnie Shovestull.

Sign up sheets are up for 2026 communion prep, building cleaning, worship training center, live stream, teaching kids and teens

Wednesday, December 24 we will have 1:30 class, but no evening service.

Our next potluck will be December 21 after morning services.

We are taking December off for special collections, but as always, clothing for 5 – 7 year old boys and girls (t-shirt and shorts or dress) are needed.  If you want to contribute, but you don’t want to shop, see Amy or Diane. 

A MAN
By John Kerr

            It is funny to me how things periodically remind me of childhood events.  I was involved in some very dirty work recently and noticed that when I washed my hands there were little groups of brown suds with bubbles in them.

            My mind drifted back to boyhood days on the farm.  I was very young when Dad installed indoor plumbing.  Things were a lot different than they are now.  We had one small bathroom under the stairway.  When we would come in after a hard day’s work, we boys would stand at the sink with Dad and we would all wash our hands together.

            We used soap, but Dad used Boraxo.  Dad’s Boraxo came in a metal can and had a lid with three holes in it that he would twist to reveal the openings and allow the powdered soap to pour out.  Back then everything about the process seemed manly to me.  Of course his hands were much dirtier than ours and these little soap pods squirted around in the sink… for him, not us.  I thought about the day when I would be a man and use Boraxo and leave little piles of dirty bubbles on the sink.

            I guess I made it!  There is a lot more to being a man than that little farm boy realized.

            In I Corinthians 13 Paul tells about growing up.  He remembers what things were like when he was a child.  11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
                    13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

            There is a lot more to being an adult than Boraxo and dirty bubbles.  An adult loves others with the love of God as Paul describes in the first part of this chapter (the love chapter).  Let’s grow up.

MALADROIT - clumsy or inept.  In this weather, it's dangerous to be maladroit.

Come as you are and grow with us!

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Kris Smith 814-229-3290
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