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The new advisor team and Pastor Kim met this evening: Karen, Earl, David, Melanie, and Kim. Warning – great activities and opportunities are being planned this year! Movie nights, dinner groups, new support groups, Vacation Bible School, Kim blogging from abroad! All kinds of ideas were discussed and will be in the works soon and this summer.
Melanie:
How about the thermostat? That’s an exciting subject!!!
We need to have our air conditioning technician come out and look at our thermostat because it is not operating properly (maybe it needs to be replaced) When I arrived at the church on Sun. morning, the thermometer showed it was 68 degrees and the thermostat was set for 72. Nonetheless, the a/c was running and putting out cold air. As the service went on, the a/c continued to put out cold air. I went over and set the thermostat to 75 degrees, yet still the cold air poured out and the thermometer showed it was 68 degrees. After the service was over the thermometer showed it was 68 degrees and yet cold air still poured out. The thermostat seems to be off 5 or more degrees! At the same time the fans were also whirring around blowing around the cold air.
It is the middle of Feb.; I don’t have my a/c on; do you? I don’t want to pay Progress Energy any more than I have to. Does Lakewood consider Progress Energy to be its favorite charity? I don’t think we need the A/c on or the fans whirring around on high. Last Sun., Feb. 12th, it was like a barn in the sanctuary and heat was needed. I had my heat on! Someone said that heat costs money. We would have plenty of money for heat on the 2 or 3 Sundays when it is needed if we didn’t waste it on the hundreds of Sundays when the a/c is turned way to far down, with the (unnecessary) fans whirring around on high.
Our organ is broken!!! Hilton has been trying to get one of three available repair people to come out and look at the organ and advise us as to its repairability and cost. However, nothing is happening! Are we going to fix the organ? If not, are we going to move it out of the sanctuary? Are we going to look for some kind of a replacement? What’s going on here?
I am so glad that I didn’t miss church this past Sunday! The music was amazing. Katie, a friend of Hilton’s, played the euphonium, and it was so beautiful. On case you don’t know, the euphonium is like a smaller tuba. Low brass, and very expressive. Listening to the two pieces that were played was a real gift. The music ministry at LUCC is truly inspirational. Thank you, Katie. But most of all, thank you HILTON!
Thank you to Mark Gibson, Olivia Gibson, Janet Blair, Zoe Blair-Andrews, Denise and Joey Williams, Adrien Helm, Melanie Moore for volunteering at Operation Attack tonight. I hope I did not miss anyone! Our efforts enabled OA to be open in the evening to better serve the clients. Again, thank you for bringing joy to others, including the regular volunteer staff of OA and your LUCC compatriots!
Dwight Lawton was there too! I think he came after you left. I really found the experience meaningful and want to keep volunteering there. Thanks to Janet and Zoe for organizing us.
I had a good time packing groceries and would like to go again. I loved their organization! And I always love working with my Lakewood family.
Joey and I had a wonderful time at operation attack. we will happily volunteer again in the near future
. our lakewood family rocks!
I have noticed very few of Kim’s sermons are making it to our sermon listings. I’m not sure why we haven’t made it a practice to include all of her sermons on this site. Today, many churches reproduce each Sunday’s sermon on their website. Individuals looking for a church find access to these sermons to be most helpful in choosing a new home. Considering the useless nonsense that appears on many a chuch site repeatedly, we ought to be highly motivated to readily display Kim’s enlightening sermons.
I agree with Howard, but I also know I have gotten lots of emails with notifications when they are posted. On further exploration I found the sermons under podcasts. Can a link show in sermons as well, please, or somehow make it clear where they are? I listen to sermons before I visit a church these days. Thanks for seeing the site through the eyes of our visitors.
Thanks for pointing this out. I’ve now re-labeled “Sermons,” “Sermon Texts” and “Podcasts,” “Sermon Podcasts.” Hopefully that will clarify things.
Hilton
Good idea! However, my point really was directed to printed versions of the sermons. Podcasts are clever, but they can’t be printed out and saved and they can’t be given to friends and interested people in the community who may be church shopping. And, as I’ve learned from experience, it takes as long to listen to a sermon on podcast as it does to sit in the church on Sun. morning and hear it. Individuals shopping around want to be able to scan through a sermon quickly and get the gist of the message and measure the views of the preacher. Can’t we get printed versions of all sermons or is that too “old fashioned”?
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