YOUR FAVORITE VERSES AND FAVORITE HYMNS

Please complete the questionnaire, asking for your favorite verses and your favorite hymns.  Pastor Long has asked members of all ages to answer these questions.   It contains information that will assist him to better serve our flock.

At the time of this printing, only FIVE people had completed the questionnaire.  Please help Pastor Long.  He is working very hard to serve our flock, and this is one small way in which we can assist him.

Questionnaires are available in the Narthex, saving us postage.  The questionnaire was also part of an email message distributed on Wednesday (6 July).

You can just give completed questionnaires to Pastor Long, or place them in his mail box.  Thank you for your time.

Here are the questions:

Name:
Favorite Verses:
Favorite Hymns:
Favorite part of worship
Favorite memory of St John’s
Favorite Activities not church related

MY NEW PROJECT

Brothers and Sisters of Saint John’s;

During my last VA checkup, the docs ordered a lung x-ray.  They found scar tissue that had not been visible before – possibly from one of my bouts with pneumonia in the past.  The docs also found a “nodule.”

The nodule is small, but they aren’t sure what it is.  Their plan of action, is no action.  They will wait 12 months, and then determine if the nodule has grown.  If that is the case, they will run more tests to identify it.

While I have done my share of ‘waiting for test results,’ my brothers and sisters at Saint John’s have most certainly been good examples of Christian patience.  To help pass the time, I have decided to add a three-point “project” to my duties.

1. Set a goal and reduce my weight.  Not being able to exercise has taken its toll, and it is about time I “push through the pain – like John Wayne.”  Besides, we “mighty men of girth” do not travel well.
2. Save funds for myself, and at least one family member, to travel to Israel.  I sign up with Imagine Tours and their Lutheran Pastor Itinerary, or I can create my own itinerary for the grand adventure.  Either way, I will add some awesome tee-shirts to my collection.
3. Learn enough conversational Hebrew to be polite.  Yes, most Israeli business people speak English, but my bride and I always had more fun traveling when we spoke a bit of the language.

I share this with you, in order to establish a bit of accountability.  God designed us to be accountable to one another.  When we make ourselves accountable, our plans have greater possibility for success – if it be God’s will.

Mazel Tov!