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06 Feb 2018

I just returned from another adult mission trip. Six of us journeyed to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to help with the rebuilding from floods that happened in August of 2016. It is our second trip to this area. It looks much better than it did a year ago, but there is still much work to do. Approximately 100,000 homes were damaged or destroyed in the flood and it does make you wonder if the community will ever be back to “normal”. Of course, the damage in Baton Rouge is dwarfed by the destruction......

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26 Jan 2018

The Spiritual Fruit of Patience

Pastor Scott

blog, Pastor Scott Mann

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I hope and pray that your Christmas and New Year celebrations were happy and blessed. In hopes of starting the year off right, a group of us are beginning 2018 with an adult mission trip. Once again, we will work through Samaritan’s Purse, helping victims of the 2016 floods in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the same location we went to last January. The question has been asked, “How can there still be things to rebuild in Baton Rouge? Didn’t the floods happen close to a year and a half ago?” And those are......

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26 Jan 2018

From Heaven above to Earth I Come

David Dahl

blog, Pastor David Dahl

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From Heaven above to Earth I Come (LBW #51) From Heaven above to earth I come, To bear good news to every home; Glad tidings of great joy I bring, Whereof I now will say and sing. To you, this night, is born a Child Of Mary, chosen mother mild; This tender Child of lowly birth, Shall be the joy of all your earth. ’Tis Christ our God, who far on high Had heard your sad and bitter cry; Himself will your Salvation be, Himself from sin will make you free. He......

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13 Dec 2017

A Season of Joy

David Dahl

blog, Pastor David Dahl

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As a kid, I was introduced to the smells coming from the kitchen when the holidays came around. The various combinations of butter, cream, eggs, sugar, flour and the heat of the oven did something to the air. To breathe it in was like taking in joy. It was rich and good. Can you imagine that there once was a time when baking with such ingredients was against the law? Prior to 1480 as one came into the season of Advent, this was the law. In those days, the season of Advent......

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