It just goes like this!

                Beginning Thursday and ending Saturday Crossroads Church will host Cave Quest VBS as a FREE overnight camp for kids k-6^th grades. We take advantage of the camp where we meet. Food and lodging are provided. If you want more information go to www.crossroadschurcheff.org/events to download the registration/permission and information forms. Fill them out and bring them Thursday at 6pm. Yes, we will be going swimming Friday and Saturday afternoons. Barbara is testing out the craft component that includes slime. I think her count is 3 recipes and 6 different mixing attempts to come up with a slimy, gooey, stretchy concoction that you might find in a cave. She really likes this. Maybe too much.

Barbara and I will have the privilege of worshiping with Salvisa Baptist Church in Salvisa, Kentucky Sunday as they celebrate their 175^th anniversary. We served there while in seminary in Louisville. It was my first paid position. On our way, we will stop and see Jami Bassett and family in Atlanta and then head for an overnight with our oldest Elizabeth and her husband Weston in Nashville. Saturday we move on for the Bluegrass Country as Salvisa is between Lexington and Louisville almost in horse country.

That number 175years is staggering. Coming from the Midwest, I have always been overwhelmed by the age of things the farther east we have moved. While serving in Salvisa we stayed with families on the weekends and during Bible school. They lived in home built in the 1870’s, ‘50’s and the oldest 1840’s. I could not get over the idea that people lived in that house that long. Things in the Midwest are old if they were built in the 1900’s.

Not too many months ago Lizzy (Elizabeth my oldest) and I we talking about job longevity. She (in her 20’s now) remarked how long she had been in the same position and was bored and should be advancing. I asked her how long that was to which she replied “almost 2 years.” I could not contain my laughter and replied, “come talk to me when it’s been 20 years.” Time is a funny thing. We measure length by our life span and life events. 20 years to a 20 something is their whole life but to a 90 something it’s but a small period. That 175^th anniversary is a long time but it’s not so long. The Gospel has been changing lives for almost 2, 016 years. In comparison 175 years seems like nothing. It IS something. It is a part of a large vast story encompassing the entire planet and time forward into eternity. Whatever your period of time, in God’s Kingdom for God’s purposes it is important and significant. Thirty years in ministry is significant and yet it is not as there are those who have come before and those who have yet to come.

We are but a part. So, I will play my part of that 175^th anniversary.

Are you playing your part in HIStory?

In HIS service and yours,                                         

BroG