News from "Round Rock" and other stuff...
Hi friends. "Round Rock" here. This morning at Starbucks I was latched onto by a very disturbed man. He just started 
talking to me. I was trying to blog, to write a lesson, to plan a program and to answer an email from a person asking questions about our children's programs at Spring Meadows. I typed as he rambled. At some point he revealed he was an Indian Chief, that he was royalty too, kin to Lady Diana. He told me that the great spirit had spoken to me and told him to make me an Honorary Tribal Chief and to give me the name "Round Rock" (not to flattering considering that I'd already run my 6 miles this morning). How do I end up in these things? So, let's review, I have an honorary Doctorate, a symbolic key to the city of Hamilton, I'm an honorary African tribal chief and now I'm Round Rock, honorary Indian Chief. And none of these has yet netted me that Saturn Sky or an acre of land :)!
Now that my "ceremony" is over I can write what I intended to tell you about. What
an inconceivable day yesterday was at Spring Meadows!!! I suppose only God could have known. Yesterday we christened our new property by having two baptisms on the property the very day we broke ground. Somebody suggested we could build a baptistery and then build a church around it - I doubt he realized the serious truth he stated!
And, yes, we did reach our goal! We had either 306 or 312 in attendance (depends on if you count the expecting women as one or two - who knows there might be some twins?). We had right at 300 for Bible classes and probably a little over 300 at the picnic and groundbreaking (as several came for those festivities that were not there for our services). A day of days. A day for the record book. A day to store up in memory.
I want to thank all of you who came at my invitation - it meant so very, very much to me - to us all. Thank you for sharing in our journey and dreaming with us of what might be.
I'd love to "hear" your "groundbreaking" memories. It was a grand, grand day. To God goes the praise and glory. The best is yet to be - "the future is as bright as the Promises of God."
talking to me. I was trying to blog, to write a lesson, to plan a program and to answer an email from a person asking questions about our children's programs at Spring Meadows. I typed as he rambled. At some point he revealed he was an Indian Chief, that he was royalty too, kin to Lady Diana. He told me that the great spirit had spoken to me and told him to make me an Honorary Tribal Chief and to give me the name "Round Rock" (not to flattering considering that I'd already run my 6 miles this morning). How do I end up in these things? So, let's review, I have an honorary Doctorate, a symbolic key to the city of Hamilton, I'm an honorary African tribal chief and now I'm Round Rock, honorary Indian Chief. And none of these has yet netted me that Saturn Sky or an acre of land :)!Now that my "ceremony" is over I can write what I intended to tell you about. What
an inconceivable day yesterday was at Spring Meadows!!! I suppose only God could have known. Yesterday we christened our new property by having two baptisms on the property the very day we broke ground. Somebody suggested we could build a baptistery and then build a church around it - I doubt he realized the serious truth he stated! And, yes, we did reach our goal! We had either 306 or 312 in attendance (depends on if you count the expecting women as one or two - who knows there might be some twins?). We had right at 300 for Bible classes and probably a little over 300 at the picnic and groundbreaking (as several came for those festivities that were not there for our services). A day of days. A day for the record book. A day to store up in memory.
I want to thank all of you who came at my invitation - it meant so very, very much to me - to us all. Thank you for sharing in our journey and dreaming with us of what might be.
I'd love to "hear" your "groundbreaking" memories. It was a grand, grand day. To God goes the praise and glory. The best is yet to be - "the future is as bright as the Promises of God."
