More Than Today

This past weekend I was in The Music Man. I was one of the school board members who couldn't get along with each other (that would never happen in real life) until we were brought together by the joy of harmonizing as a Barbershop Quartet. Thus this picture of me. The show was an incredible experience. The director, musical director, choreographer, costumer, and cast were wonderful people and I miss them already. Fortunately, I have two of the cast members around...my daughters Rosie and Emily. We shared the whole experience and it will give us a lifetime of memories. It was a great summer vacation. Singing, acting, making new friends, driving with my daughters (Emily drove mostly since she is working on getting her driver's license soon...tomorrow actually), and learning so much about the theatre. I wouldn't have missed it. And I'm already hoping to be in another show someday.

Today I had the opportunity to talk with and video Linda Morningstar who coordinates the Angel Food Ministry at the church she attends, St. Paul UMC in Manchester, PA. Linda has a passion to serve God and it comes across when talking with her. Angel Food Ministries is designed to help everyone stretch their food dollars. Once a month, anyone, no pre-qualification necessary, can sign up and pay $30 for a box of food that they then can pick up two weeks later. For that $30, about $60 worth of food is obtained. It's not everyday that you can double your food money. Anyway, we are starting this ministry at Friendship Community Church in August and so have been trying to learn all we can about it. This weekend we will be showing this video to the congregation here to let them see how serving people serves God. Look for Angel Food Ministries in your own community and help someone, yourself included.

We use a lot of video resources at our church each weekend. Sometimes it gets really hard to find just the right clip to highlight and strengthen the weekly theme. Often I head to Sermonspice.com to look over the many videos from various sources. They have a good search set-up that lets me type in a topic and be brought to the many videos that might fit. I can watch them in full and choose what I need. But I would have to say that beyond the excellent videos and quick way of searching for them, what I appreciate a lot is the quick response I am given if I have trouble downloading a video. Most of the time the downloads go easily but on occasion I have trouble and e-mail the service team. It seems that within minutes I get a response saying they are sorry for my trouble (I always appreciate someone being sorry) and they give me enough new tries to download and specific help on downloading. Then I try what they say and I get the video. This is especially helpful near the weekend w...