Youth Sunday

This Sunday I will be working on a Residents Encounter Christ weekend at the Kentucky State Reformatory, so I won't be at church.  I've only missed three or four weekends at Drennon since we arrived there two and a half years ago, and I really don't like to miss at all.  This is a great opportunity for me, though, to go back to The Well and draw some Living Water.  Jesus will be in charge of the weekend, and while the inmates at KSR will surely gain something by our being there, we'll gain just as much or more.

While I'm gone, the congregation will plug along without me just fine, and in fact the youth of our church (of which there are very few) will join Eleanor Jones Sharp for a message on The Tools of Life.  Something like this occurring just underscores again the importance of our searching for our church vision.  I want to mobilize the troops so they don't have to look to me for direction.  I think it'll go great, and I only wish I could be there.

With Youth Sunday and our vision in mind, I post the two above pictures, which point back to our history.  Eleanor located an old pulpit Bible from the 1930s and the two ledgers dating from 1919 till the 1960s, by asking around amongst families no longer associated with Drennon but whose descendents are still around in one way or another.  We have so little of our history written down and preserved in an easy to locate space.  These discoveries are huge.  Nice juxtaposition:  Youth Sunday and our historic artifacts. I look forward to really delving more and more into the documents included in these books, and also working further on our church vision.