So far today we’ve had a great day out in the snow with the kids. we made a snow man, threw some snow balls, and made a snow angel.

As for tomorrow, yes I’m going to church. I’m going to leave early, drive slow, and go. If you’re worried about your ability to drive in the snow, then you are welcome to stay home. Nodoby is going to pressure you to go to church.

As we come up on our one year anniversary next month, I came across an article from another church celebrating their 10th anniversary. Let me share it with you:

It was ten years ago today that we nearly canceled church.
We had our first service on January 16, 2000…but the next Saturday night (January 22) a MAJOR ice storm hit the upstate. I remember sitting in front of my television with the weather channel on, begging God to let the ice storm miss us.. It didn’t!

SO…the next morning trees were falling all over the place and the entire college campus lost power. I “gave up” and decided to walk over to the building where we were meeting and post a sign on the door that said, “church canceled today.”

When I got to the door Joe and Jeen Sangl were sitting in front of the building in their little chevy car and Joe said to me, “Hey man, we aren’t canceling church, are we?”

“No way,” I said back to him as I wadded the piece of paper up and put it in my pocket. We walked into the room (which was VERY cold) and set up chairs. We didn’t have to worry about sound or anything like that…like I said, we had no power. After everything was ready we sat back and wondered whether or not anyone was going to show.

They did, mostly college students…but by the time we began our services we had around 70 people in the room. So…we played some music, I preached and then we went home. (We had church that night as well!) I remember thinking as people were leaving, “I am SO glad we did not cancel church today.”

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I’m looking forward to the memories of this weekend. See you tomorrow.