What has been happening?
Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 12:20 PM by David Zavadil
I noticed that my last entry was on the 6th. Where has the month gone? We have been very busy at Eastminster Presbyterian Church. We began our revamped Sunday School and have doubled our average attendance since the new beginning. I currently have 5 adults in our inquirer's class and am excited about the new possiblities.
The last week in January I had lunch with Pastor Kim of Eden Korean Presbyterian Church. They meet in our Chapel on Sundays. Pastor Kim asked if they could move their worship time to coincide with ours. He expressed concern that some of their children speak better English than the parents and would appreciate being involved in our Sunday School. We are now having joint Sunday School classes with adult classes in English and Korean and the kids and youth all meeting together. Our next joint venture is to begin ESL classes in the spring/summer season.
Our IT elder and I have been busy trying to upgrade the church website to Joomla 1.5. This has proven a bigger undertaking than we first thought. I hope to have the site up and ready by next week sometime.
February 17 - 20, 2008 we held our FIRST Evangelism and Apologetics Conference. Attendance was good, with three times the participants for the evangelism class than we had planned to have. Clete Hux with Apologetics Resource Center was our Keynote speaker. He taught on world views during the week, enlightening us on the Postmodernism, Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses and the Word of Faith Movement. It was a great time, too bad Clete was fighting the flu the entire time.
This last week we have all been dealing with that same flu bug. Over half of the congregation was out sick last week with the flu and various other ailments. Many more have fallin ill this week. Sickness is running rampant through our body.
For those that might be interested. I am down 20 lbs and only about 5 pounds from my target weight. I am feeling better and stronger than at any time in my life. I really encourage everyone to watch what they eat.
Pray for us. Easter is coming, one of the busiest seasons in the church. Pray for the physical health of our congregation. Pray that God will give me the words to say on Sundays.
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