Rejoice, and again I say Rejoice!

I have been in such a "funk" lately... crabby and anti social. But tonight I have much to rejoice about! What an awesome day this has been in the Lord!

This morning we began a new adventure in Children's Church. We turned the Sunday School building next door into an auto mechanic's shop, called the Master's Care shop... total care for your soul. It was so much fun! We were packed in ( a total of 34 people in one room full of tools, keyboard, etc etc) and I don't know who had more fun, the children or the adults! Crystal took lots of pictures, and I will post a few of them once they give me a CD of them. Kelly kindly videotaped the whole thing for us, and I can't WAIT to see it! Ben let us use his video camera (thank you thank you thank you!!!) so we need to borrow it from him to be able to watch it. Their were many fun moments, like when Ron blew the air horn and freaked a few children out (not bad... they laughed afterward)... and when he did a load test on the battery and caused smoke to come off the battery (planned, not dangerous)... and when Seana smeared car grease all over her face... lots of laughs! But there were also some serious times, like Bro. Lyon's message about the flat tire, the nail representing sin. Very powerful image for the children. And the prayer time at the end was wonderful... all the children were praying. However, the highlight of the day was when Ron took them outside to the huge tractor trailer truck he had parked on the front lawn, put them all in the sleeper cab, and took them for a ride down the street! They'll be talking about that for months to come! They got to pull the horn and shift the gears! They were thrilled! They were wondering if we were going to be doing this every week... LOL! NOT! Maybe every 8 weeks or so... but not every week!

THEN, we went to brunch with Jack and Julie at a new restaurant called "Tuscan Kitchen". I have never been there, but it was delicious! It was a Sunday brunch with a little bit of everything you can imagine! YUM!

Then off to evening service. WOW! The Lord was really moving, and one of our teens who has been seeking the baptism of the Holy Ghost for a year and a half finally received it at the end of service! What a wonderful time of celebration! I think he spoke in tongues for about a half an hour. The angels of God rejoice over ONE sinner who repents... so we just celebrated right along with them! He was so full of the love of God, he just hugged and hugged people! It was so cool!

SO, I apologize for my complaining. It is not a godly characteristic. I choose to rejoice tonight!