Hope all is well, and all manner of things are well with you and yours. Again, a grateful shout out to Randy for stepping up last week. If any of you ever feel compelled to start the gratitude train of Dame Cinco, don't hesitate. Jump in the engine, stoke up the coals of gratitude and send us down the line!
Psalm 89 (The Message)
Psalm 89:1-2
1-2 Your love, God, is my song, and I'll sing it! I'm forever telling everyone how faithful you are.I'll never quit telling the story of your love—
how you built the cosmos
and guaranteed everything in it.
Your love has always been our lives' foundation,
your fidelity has been the roof over our world.
For the song of the summer Kid's Club at Grandview Park . . . for the overwhelming response from the neighborhood kids (70 and counting on the 1st day! ---- usually 30 and counting) . . . for the experienced and competent staff . . . for the Kansas Health Foundation grant that funds the majority of the program . . . for the teenagers who have grown up in the program and sought us out to be leaders . . . for Harvesters support in helping to feed the multitude and be our miracle of the loaves and fishes . . . for the growing branch of our shrub called the Kid's Club Summer Program . . . I sing of God's love forever!
For the song being sung by the Youth Works group from Tulsa, OK . . . for their work on our building . . . for their help with the Kid's Club . . . for the connection made with Youth Works by our tireless connection maker, G. Take . . . for young people whose songs are making a difference in the world, our neighborhood and our church . . . I sing of God's love forever!
For the song that Kent Parrett keeps singing nearly everyday at the church . . . for the rhythm of his hammers and sanders . . . for the humming of his drills and saws . . . for his willingness to direct the Youth Works choir as they seek to help us . . . for being willing to sing solo when it should be a chorus (Work day coming up on June 27!) . . . for new bathroom sinks that work and make the clean-up of 70+ kids more manageable . . . for the sweet and oftentimes difficult rebuilding song that Kent is trying to teach us . . . I sing of God's love forever!
For the many and varied songs of faith, hope and love that we are teaching one another through our shared gimme cincos . . . for the melody of new life -- Kaden (Katey), Emilio (Griselda), the one on the way (Kelly) . . . for the triumph song of victory over illness (Gigi's brother Tom) . . . for Pastor Terry's consistent songs that mix both joy and lament . . . for Randy's hip-hop rhythms of youth, 'hood', and leadership . . . for Jennifer's hopeful strains of persistant, commitment to her students . . . for the country connection that comes to us all the way from Jetmore, KS through LeAnn's voice of praise . . . for all the voices that combine on Wednesdays and Thursdays to sing the story of God's love . . . I sing of God's love forever!
For the little old shrub called Grandview Park Presbyterian . . . for the ways in which it has been a place of shelter and nurture for so many over 120 years . . . for the song we continue to sing through good times and bad and everything in between . . . for verse after verse after verse that is written year after year after year that tells the story of God's love and fidelity for each new generation . . . for the foundation song of all we do --- God's guaranteed love and grace --- I sing forever and ever and ever!
Now's not the time to quit telling the story. Sing the thanksgiving song. Sing for your brothers and sisters. Tell everyone.
(Special welcome to Marqueeta from OK whom we met last week on BAK. Make yourself at home, Marqueeta!)
Pastor Rick
Don't forget . . .
Prayer group tonight at the Sandoval house . . .
Prayer group tomorrow at the Parrett house.
If you missed last Sunday's sermon it can be found at
http://gimmecinco.blogspot.com "Like a Shrub"
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