Tomorrow morning
at 9:30
our church will gather for worship at our new church home!
This is a special and exciting day for our church.
No one really expected we would be in our new building until at least Christmas.
But tomorrow we will!
This afternoon we stopped by for one last look around the building.
As we pulled into the parking lot we heard the sound of church bells
ringing through the streets of Winnetka.
I never thought the sound of church bells would have such a powerful effect on me.
But these are personal.
(video looks black. just press play and listen as you scroll through the post)
Inside the upper bowels of this old building one of the members of our leadership team was working away at figuring out how to get eighty year old bells working.
The bells of the church are run by this "electric player roll," but the bells themselves are real bells.
Apparently there were no YouTube videos on this one.
In the same tiny room with bells is the church organ.
Check out the little cloth ties holding the pipes. I love it!
Here is my attempt at imitating Mitt Romney videos
by taking Iphone movies on the sly...
You can hear the girls giggling. Can you recognize the hymn?
It is the one that will play out the bell tower as worship ends.
It also happens to be the one I've had in my mind all summer.
I'll give you a little hint-
"Did we in our own strength confide,
our striving would be losing.
Were not the right man on our side,
the man of God's own choosing.
Dost ask who that may be?
Christ Jesus it is He.
Lord Sabaoth His name,
From age to age the same.
And He must win the battle."
Rynn and a church buddy.
Helen's handiwork
I've been thinking a bit tonight about worship, about gathering with others for worship, and about why we do it. What's the point? Can't we just save a little time and effort and curl up with our prayers in bed or on a walk by the lake? I read a very helpful article today on why we are missing so much when we try to go at it alone. Written by J.K. Smith the article is brief, concise, and extremely helpful. Check it out HERE.
God’s work in the world is never merely pragmatic. It isn’t simply “We can organize a program to go and do this.” If you think we can do God’s work like that, read the lives of people like William Wilberforce and think again. You can’t. You need prayer, you need the sacraments, you need that patient faithfulness—because we are not wrestling against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers and the world rulers of this present darkness. - NT Wright
