Garage Ministry, Part Deux

DISCO TIME!!!

We finished Lynda's garage on Sunday. Woo hoo, it was a great feeling. I am waiting on Kim Steiner to supply me with pictures, ahem. She is a busy mom, with 2 small children...well, make that one small girl and one small Tazmanian Devil...so I am sure she is cleaning up spilled milk somewhere and will get me the pics when she can :)

Wow, we did so much this week, it's hard to remember it all. The Beltons, including Justice which was very awesome, The Roberts (us), and the Steiners all went to Lynda's for the garage minsitry, and there we met with Lynda and Matt (her son) Ellison. We actually got to Lynda's early, before she was back from her institutional church service, so we plugged in our crockpots and hung out with the church until she came home. We had a rousing discussion about things we are teaching our children, how to make sure we don't pass on any frustration or animosity to them...good stuff, good ideas.

We ate, of course, and had a time of music and Bible study outside. It was a gorgeous day in Faribault, so we took full advantage and bothered the neighbors with our singing. Cameron, Matt and Chris even did a pretty good accoustic rendition of "Jesus Freak" During lunch, we discussed Doug's new website, Simeonconnects.com. There he is starting a Book Club, and we discussed what approach to take on secular books. Our conclusion was that we should read them as a group, because God may be speaking something to a non-believer's heart that we could illuminate but only if we have common ground. The comment was made, "what if I am subjecting myself to undue worldy influence; I don't feel strong enough sometimes to withstand, so I just avoid it." Lively debate ensued, because the Bible DOES say to flee temptation, BUT locking arms with fellow believers and pushing yourself toward that refining fire will make you stronger in the Lord. This was a great discussion and of course, I couldn't put all of it here, but if you have questions about this subject matter, or any, feel free to contact us!

We did eventually move into the garage and clean the rest of it...and it is definately big enough to park 4 cars in. We decided that a disco ball was in order, and that we aren't too religious to dance. We also received an unexpected blessing from the experience...we found an old canister, Slim Jim I think, that had $116 in it!!! So we used some of that to buy pizza and had dinner together too. All in all, a fairly productive day.

Who has an idea for our next ministry project? Who has an idea for Simeon's book club? I am still not sure that anyone reads this, but it is fun to do, and maybe someday another religious burn out will stumble upon it and realize that it is ok to let go. MR