{"id":10395,"date":"2022-03-30T13:59:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T17:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=10395"},"modified":"2022-03-30T13:59:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T17:59:29","slug":"2-midweek-message-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2022\/03\/2-midweek-message-2-2-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Message 03\/30\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>MIDWEEK MESSAGE #102<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Hello and welcome to Midweek Message #102! Thanks for letting me \u201cinvade\u201d your world in this way. As I write this, it sounds like we might be able to say \u201cSpring has sprung.\u201d I sure am hoping so. J\u00a0 In any case, I hope your week has been going well for you.<\/p>\n<p>My first order of business is to refer you to last week\u2019s MM. I know you print all of them out and save them for historical significance (Ahem!), but JUST. IN. CASE. YOU. DON\u2019T, I\u2019d like to go over the Resurrection Sunday items and also make an important clarification. In last week\u2019s MM here is what I said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the past couple of weeks we have been announcing our Resurrection Sunday service will be at Abram Farm. For those \u201cveterans\u201d you already know a lot of work is needed to help get things ready. For you \u201cnewbies\u201d here is a list of what we need to do.\u00a0 All of this has to be done on Sunday morning since we cannot get into Abram Farm until 7:00 due to a wedding on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thanks to Zach Hogan providing the sound for us (as he did at our celebration outside this past Fall), we are spared having to cart all our sound equipment over. But there is still a need to take equipment from here to there. We also need help unloading the equipment from his trailer and bringing it into the building.<\/li>\n<li>The biggest need will be setting up chairs and some tables and we need all the help we can get in setting them up. In the past, due to the help we have had in that particular area it has taken us about 1-1\u00bd hours or so to set up.\u00a0 That also allows for us to make adjustments if needed.<\/li>\n<li>Because of a different traffic pattern entering the building we need some greeters who will show people where to enter and once inside to hand out bulletins, song sheets, and communion elements (we will be using the pre-filled ones).<\/li>\n<li>There is minimum parking available so we will need help with making sure all parking spots are filled. You may ask, \u201cHow can I help?\u201d The biggest way is to consider parking at the church parking lot and carpool with others. This has worked well for us in the past and we anticipate it will again. Thanks for your help. {See note below please}<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps the hardest part is the tear down. I know folks are eager to leave for family things, but if we have everyone\u2019s cooperation immediately, that makes things go quickly and also stops us from having to come back later in the day. The chairs and tables need put away, communion tubs and clipboards collected, and help with the equipment being taken back out to the trailer and vehicles for transport. I\u2019d like to ask you to maybe consider giving an extra 10-15 minutes if possible to help with the teardown. As it has been said, \u201cMany hands make light work.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is also one more item you need to be aware of. Having our service there hinders us from having any children\u2019s programs. We can offer a place for a nursery although, unless someone or some folks want to step up, the nursery will not be staffed.\u201d (End of MM#101 thought)<\/p>\n<p>CLARIFICATION: In the past, due to the lack of space at Abram Farm, we have not had a staffed nursery. In fact, we give all our teachers and helpers the week off and tell them to enjoy the worship with their families. \u00a0This year is no exception despite what it sounds like by my words. There will be a space (south end of building) for you to take your child if you feel a need to allow them to move around, to rock them to sleep, or to play. There will be no one staffing the nursery so you will be responsible for staying with your child. That will be absolutely essential since we will have no way to sign in\/out your child. I do apologize if I gave anyone the idea that we would have a staffed nursery. \u00a0I completely and fully agree that we have the best teachers and helpers on the planet and they deserve a week off to worship with their family.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>IMPORTANT UPDATE<\/em><\/strong>: Jim Jones would like to meet with the SAFETY TEAM this Sunday at 10:15 in the library to discuss the whole parking situation so it will work smoothly. Please make plans to be there.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>NOTE: <\/em><\/strong>As in years past, all our offering on Resurrection Sunday will be given to missions we support, unless designated.<\/p>\n<p>I have been enjoying preaching this series on <em>Truth Decay<\/em>. It has challenged me in my study and also in my personal beliefs and faith. I am not looking for you to comment on the yay or nay of the series, but I do sincerely hope it has challenged and encouraged you as well.\u00a0 The rest of the series is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>April 2- Sin is Still Sin<\/li>\n<li>April 9- The Cross is Still the Cross<\/li>\n<li>April 16- Alive is Still Alive<\/li>\n<li>April 23- Eternity is Still Eternity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The series following will be entitled <em>Snapshots<\/em>. I plan to take a few of the shorter books in the NT (Philemon, 2 John, 3 John, and Jude) and do a short series on them. The one hitch will be on Mother\u2019s Day when I will interrupt the series for a sermon fitting the day.\u00a0 J<\/p>\n<p>Just a word which has been on my heart lately before I close.\u00a0 Over the past 2 weeks I chose to reread two fiction books I had at home. They were both books which deeply impacted me, first back in 1995 (Wisdom Hunter) and 1999 (Betrayal) by Randall Arthur. Randy became a friend through the books, correspondence and then personal visits. I read them every once in a while simply to remind me of who I need to be and what I need to be as a pastor. Randy wrote something in each book he signed for me: \u201cAbove all else, never lose your heart for God.\u201d That has been burning in my heart the past two or three weeks. I think that is what led me to read them again. I would say the same to you: never lose your heart for God. If you feel it waning, run back to Him and ask Him to give you a fresh heart.\u00a0 I love you all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Bill<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIDWEEK MESSAGE #102 Hello and welcome to Midweek Message #102! Thanks for letting me \u201cinvade\u201d your world in this way. As I write this, it sounds like we might be able to say \u201cSpring has sprung.\u201d I sure am hoping so. J\u00a0 In any case, I hope your week has been going well for you. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2022\/03\/2-midweek-message-2-2-2-2\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midweekmessage","category-ovcf-news","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10396,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395\/revisions\/10396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}