We did go to a local flea market. It wasn’t much and didn’t take long to walk through it. We had lunch at a small, non-chain, Mexican restaurant. Mine was edible, Kathy’s was good. Other than walking around the campground a little we didn’t do a lot.
Sunday
Kelsey let us know that there church had been cancelled, due
to weather, and they were available for a Skype video chat. After a couple of
tries we managed to make a connection using my phone. It worked okay for a while
but then it seemed like we lost bandwidth/signal and both video and voice was
choppy. It was good to see Lydia and K&A.
We were almost out the door to go to a 9AM church service
when Kelsey texted us. The church as two services so changed plans and went to
the 10:45 service instead. The church is called Liberty Church. They meet in
what used to be a multi-screen theater. There
was free coffee and other things at the “snack bar” when you entered the lobby.
They appeared to have torn down the wall between from between two of the
theater areas to make a larger area for the main meeting area.
This photo shows half of the sanctuary. There is a much larger screen at the front of the other half. The theater seating is still in place.
I think there were around 200 adults, mostly young adults
(20-45), attending the service. Music was contemporary/praise music. A couple
(retirees?) who are relocating to the area, from northern Alabama, got up and
gave a testimony. From what I gather they were relatively new to Liberty (maybe
attended 4 or 5 times). Several weeks ago the Pastor preached on healing, He
emphasized believing/claiming that we were healed even if we didn’t see the
immediate impact of the healing. A few days later the guys right leg swelled
up. Doctors told him that he had blood clots and that the blood clots had moved
to his lungs. Apparently when checking his lungs they found that he had cancer
which had spread to his lymph nodes. Last week he went in for further scans and
they could not find any cancer.
This mornings message was about fighting. The text was II Ti
4:6&7, where Paul says that he has fought a good fight. We Christians are
in a battle. It is important that we recognize who we are fighting. We are not
allowed to have enemies (dislike/hate people) but we are commanded to love
people. Until we learn to love others, all others, we should not even begin to
think we are mature enough to get into the real battle as described in Eph
6:10-18.
In addition to having small groups the church appears to have many other
ongoing activities. One of the things that started today was "5,000 random acts of kindness". Members were asked to do "random acts of kindness" for other people. There will be a huge bowl at the church where members can write a little note about what they did and then put the note in the bowl. Liberty seems like a good place to worship, if only they would
throw in some southern gospel music <grin>.
It was another nice day today. I sat outside for about a
half hour getting some sun. (I was only out for a half hour because I don't want to get my pasty, white skin sun burned) I wore shorts and no shirt. Temp was in the mid 70’s.
Rain is moving in for the next several days but the lowest of the temperatures
in the 10 day forecast is a low of 38 one night and a high of 51 the following
day.
May God bless you and yours.
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