More Than Today

During this last month I have been in rehearsal for "The Music Man." It's a fun musical first written in the 1950's and performed and then put out as a movie in the early 1960's. You probably have heard about it even if you haven't seen it. It's about an Iowa town where a traveling salesman goes to start a boy's band. No, not the Backstreet Boys, this band was in 1912. But he is a con artist who just sells people band uniforms and instruments and then heads out of town without there really being a band. But this Professor Harold Hill didn't count on falling for Marion, the librarian. Life changes and so do motives when one falls in love. Our lives change when we fall in love, when we care for someone besides ourselves... But anyway, I got into this musical because I enjoy the creative community and I hoped to be in it with my two talented daughters. Fortunately, we all got through the auditions and now are spending a lot of time rehearsing t

It is with great anticipation that I look forward to Friendship Community Church becoming a distribution center in August for Angel Food Ministries. On August 8th and 9th people will be able to come to Friendship and order and pay for approximately $60 worth of groceries...but only have to pay $30 to do so. Then on Saturday morning, August 23rd, people will be able to come and pick up the groceries and take them home. With the cost of food and gas going up lots of us are struggling with just paying the bills. Whether you have a regular job with a decent income or infrequent jobs at minimum wage, you often wonder how you are going to keep putting food on the table. Angel Food Ministries offers the opportunity to all, with no income restrictions, to save money on their groceries. Of course lots of volunteers are needed to get the food from the refrigerated truck at a different location and bring it to Friendship. Then others will be needed to distribute the food to those coming i

A couple of weekends from now the church here at Friendship Community is going to show a drive-in movie on our ballfield on Friday and Saturday nights, June 20 & 21. For months we have been talking among the staff about what would be a good movie to show. Something that all ages could watch and that would be a fun family experience. After discussing some movies that have been out recently, we finally decided to show "ET"(not Entertainment Tonight but ET the Extra Terrestrial). Yeah, it's an old one from 1982 but it's a great story and I am looking forward to seeing it on the gigantic screen that the Hershey Drive-In will be bringing for our event. The screen is higher than our church building. It will be a free event and if we have nice weather we may have 600 or more people as we did last summer when we had a couple of drive-in weekends. The thing that makes "ET" special is that it is a real family (well as real as movies can do) with family diffic