Weekend Reflections

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Some reflections on this July 4 weekend:

  • Great to be here when our students came back from Challenge. Their excitement was contagious. We're doing a couple of songs by Starfield in worship next week (the band that led worship at Challenge). We'll also have student faith stories.
  • I forgot to mention July 4 in the first two services. ;_( Sorry about that. I love our country. When you grow up in a Cuban home and largely Cuban community in FL, you know what it's like to lose freedom and to appreciate the U.S.A. Although I didn't experience it personally, I heard about it almost every day (my grandmother listened to Cuban radio and they found one way or another to remember regularly what they had lost).
  • Got over to the Hudson campus before services to see the set-up. Wow it looks great. The team there has done some amazing things and the theater is great.
  • Went kayaking on the Kini with friends and Henry M on Saturday morning. Could not have been a more beautiful day!
  • Attendance was surprisingly strong for a holiday weekend and met a few new folks. Gas prices keeping people home?
  • Lois gets home tomorrow from driving her parents to Atlanta for a reunion of the mission her parents worked in in Liberia. She was born there and lived there the first eight years or so of her life. Can't wait for her to get home.
  • I loved Hancock. Want to see it again.
  • Can't wait for theseries starting next week.