Sunday Notes

Today was good. It's always a bit strange to switch to "summer church" since we leave over a hour later (for most of the year, Sunday School starts at 9:30 and the service at 10:45; for the summer, we keep the service time by don't have Sunday School). It makes for a longer pre-service morning. I wonder if anyone showed up at 9:30 for Sunday School this morning?

The service was good. We're still in 1 Corinthians 7, but we're switching things up for a while starting next week. Pastor Mike will take over, and he's going through Ephesians. He's going to be preaching for 8 weeks, and then the new missionary we plan to support will be here for a Sunday. It will be late August/early September before we get back to (and finish) chapter 7. I've been loving it, of course, because it's about marriage without glorifying it, and about the benefits to singleness. It's about so much more, as well: about being content where God has put you; about being Christ-focused instead of world-focused; about looking at all of what Scripture says about a topic instead of just what you like.

We just started talking about planning for Sunday School, because it's been a whole week since we finished! It seems like the work never stops, but the truth is that I'll do some stuff this month (mostly wrapping things up and talking to people about teaching in the fall), and then let it go for most of July. Then in August, I'll start ramping things up again for our start in September.

And now it's just a quiet afternoon.