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Dear Family and Friends,

 

“When it rains, it pours”.  In the past couple of weeks, three teenage young men came to Jesus Christ, asking forgiveness for their sin, and placing their faith the Savior.  This past week we heard of a young dad who placed his personal faith in Jesus as his Savior while the congregation was singing “Mighty to Save”.  Just before our Saturday evening congregation was getting ready to meet another man came up to me and told of how a friend of his also became a Christian recently.  And then this past Wednesday a man walked into the church wanting to meet with the pastor and I had the privilege to share the simple plan of salvation with him and he prayed to ask Jesus to forgive his sins. It is a process for all in coming to Christ (emotional, intellectual questions and issues that need to be addressed) and then one major decision of the individual’s will, “will I place my trust in Jesus to be my Savior?”

 

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Gordie

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Dear Family and Friends,

 

For the past several months we have had a growing and enjoyable experience getting to know some of our neighbors.  One younger couple in particular, has given us the privilege of being in their home and sharing our on going relationship with the Lord.  They have been coming for several months now to church and next week we will begin to meet (just the four of us) for an every other week Bible Study.  Sandy and I are really looking forward to this continuing relationship as they have lots of great questions. We will meet in our homes, right across the street from each other.

 

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Gordie

 

Oh, and by the way, this coming Monday a pool (or is it billiard?) table is going to be delivered to our home.  This is a gift (can’t beat the price) coming to us from a church member’s boss.  The table is in great shape.  We will have it transferred to our home and re-felted.  Then our beginning plans are to invite the men on our street to join in for a pool tournament………this will probably occur next winter when the grass quits growing, the days get begin getting shorter again and I have time to practice.    

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Dear Family and Friends,

 

Last evening Sandy and I went to Seattle to see the Broadway production of “The Lion King”.  It was colorful, creatively presented, and with great music.  We really enjoy live theatrical productions yet rarely go, so it was certainly a treat. With the “Circle of Life” song ringing in our ears, it occurred to me that I am closer to my 80 year old mother’s age than I am to any of our four adult children…….And, so to speak, I am moving in her direction.  J

 

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Gordie

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Dear Family and Friends,

 

Before I left for Texas and Florida last month my blood pressure was noticeably going up.  Some day I know I will be going up, but until that day I would like my blood pressure to wait for me.  There was a lot happening just before vacation and as soon as I got out of Dodge for a needed respite, the blood pressure came back down to earth.  But when I got back home, it started rising again.  I saw my doctor whom I have seen for about 15 years and we agreed that my blood pressure, which has “been like an eighteen year old all along,” was acting abnormal.  He told me the difference now is that I am really 57 years old.  He prescribed some meds but when I told him that for the last several months, due to weather, long working hours, and personal sickness, I hadn’t been running.  He told me to get back into that good ole exercising schedule, trying that first before going to the drugs.  I have been back to running and walking everyday and J haven’t yet touched one pill prescribed as the blood pressure is back to normal.  Just a side note: I might begin looking for the best drug deal I can make, anybody offering? J

 

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Gordie

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Dear Family and Friends,

 

Some years ago, on one of those rounded numbered type years, my high school back in Michigan sent out a directory of where all my fellow 1970 graduating class lived.  Now you have to understand I graduated in a large class of hundreds upon hundreds from Cousino High School in Warren, Michigan.  I found out that I was the only one living in Washington State.  So getting visitors out in the Pacific Northwest is a treat and because of the distance, we usually know when someone is coming.  All this to say that on Thursday of this past week, three of us on our church staff were sitting in the office discussing current events and also that the copier at church was not working properly.  I saw for a moment a fellow coming to the church door and asked who that might be.  I was told that perhaps it was the copy guy.  I got up to open the office door to our lobby and there stood my good friend, going al the way back to my 7^th. grade, one who I went to college with, church with, and even took to his audition for God’s Volunteers……..Doug Timm.  What a surprise indeed.  We only had an hour and a half and I probably talked his ear off.  Doug and Deidre live in Big Sky, Montana.  Doug, besides other things, pastors there.  It was really cool to show Doug our church building and home. When our house was just in the dreaming stage, Doug entered into our dreams when we were visiting them in Big Sky. Our radiant floor idea came from those talks.  Isn’t it neat to have friends that even though you haven’t seen each other for some time, your conversation doesn’t miss a beat and takes off right where you left it., just as if it had ended a few minutes ago.

 

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Gordie

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Dear Family and Friends,

 

We are moving……..to the Central Standard Time Zone……..and only from Monday nights to Thursday mornings.  Actually, Sandy moved there a long time ago and I just got there last week.  You see, I am a natural night owl and Sandy, while always an early bird, wakes up at 5 am Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.  It doesn’t make sense anymore for me to stay up late, wake Sandy when I go to bed and for her to wake me when she gets up “in the middle of the night”.  Soooooooo I am going to try going to bed at 9 pm (pacific coast time but 11 pm Central time) and get up at 5 am (pacific coast time but 7 am Central time).  After the first week, I found it isn’t bad after the first five minutes.  Getting to bed at 9 is a challenge though with some evening appointments at church.

 

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Gordie

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Dear Family and Friends,

 

Sandy and I were down in Texas to celebrate our Son’s 30^th birthday.  While down there, we were hoping to have lunch at school with our kindergartner, Lindsay.  I asked her about doing this the night before and she didn’t think they had school the next day.  I asked her why and she told me it was the King’s birthday. I couldn’t figure her out and asked why again.  She said she didn’t think they were having school because it was the King’s birthday……….I thought about that and then it came together.  I told her that Monday was Martin Luther King’s birthday and on Monday there was no school but the next day we could have lunch together.  We went to Sonics, picked up the food, headed over to her school and quickly had lunch together.  Hope you enjoy the picture below.

 

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Gordie