At the INFOdesk@baylife.org this week:
- Blood Pressure Screening - Sunday, May 8 | after each service
- Meet the Need Workday - Saturday, May 14 | meet at 7:30 am in the Bay Life parking lot
- Welcome Lunch - Sunday, May 15 in the loft at 12:30 pm | register by May 8
- Prayer Team Training - Sunday May 15, 12:30 pm in Room 603 | Everyone welcome
- All-Campus Worship - Sunday May 22 | join us at 7 pm in the
Worship Center
Greetings Lifers,
I write this email in a diminished state, perhaps a bit blurred from viewing a Lightning victory and a subsequent Dallas Mavericks playoff win (over the dreaded Lakers – I came here from Texas, remember?) that kept me up past even my night-owl bedtime. I share this as an excuse for the prose that follows – if I fail to make much sense, you’ll be apprised.
If you were in church this weekend, you’ll be glad to know that the door I butchered in my attempt to install it has been reworked and revamped by a friend who knows better, which invokes this question – aren’t you grateful for your “friends that know”? We all need them (read: we all need each other) because very few of us are gifted/knowledgeable in every area of life to the point of being able to make it on our own. And none of us (no matter how gifted/knowledgeable) are impervious to the effects of sin in life, right? Invariably we all make bad mistakes or the people around us do and the troubles of life come –it’s in these times that I am particularly grateful for the shoulders of good friends to lean on and cry on, to rest my weary hand on as God through them leads me get back to where I need to be. Where would we be without the love and grace of God through His people?
Ready for Mother’s Day? Me neither. I guess I am pretty well covered with Eleanor in that she brought home a nice new/old desk from an auction the other night and announced that the furniture was her Mother’s Day gift. Works for me – she gets what she wants without me having to shop – per-fec-toh-mun-do (Arthur Fonzerelli quote – if you’re under 30, watch the TV LAND channel, specifically “Happy Days”). But I do need to get some love out to my own mom – think she’d like a new golf club? Nah – she’d probably just give it away, say, to her son. That seals it – mom’s getting a new driver. :)
My tired-head is getting worse, so I will wrap this up. One request – as your pastor and fellow believer, I am asking that you make it out tonight to the Pole Barn atWinthrop Town Center (Bloomingdale and Providence
Free,
Mark Saunders
Lead Pastor
Bay Life Church
If you were in church this weekend, you’ll be glad to know that the door I butchered in my attempt to install it has been reworked and revamped by a friend who knows better, which invokes this question – aren’t you grateful for your “friends that know”? We all need them (read: we all need each other) because very few of us are gifted/knowledgeable in every area of life to the point of being able to make it on our own. And none of us (no matter how gifted/knowledgeable) are impervious to the effects of sin in life, right? Invariably we all make bad mistakes or the people around us do and the troubles of life come –it’s in these times that I am particularly grateful for the shoulders of good friends to lean on and cry on, to rest my weary hand on as God through them leads me get back to where I need to be. Where would we be without the love and grace of God through His people?
Ready for Mother’s Day? Me neither. I guess I am pretty well covered with Eleanor in that she brought home a nice new/old desk from an auction the other night and announced that the furniture was her Mother’s Day gift. Works for me – she gets what she wants without me having to shop – per-fec-toh-mun-do (Arthur Fonzerelli quote – if you’re under 30, watch the TV LAND channel, specifically “Happy Days”). But I do need to get some love out to my own mom – think she’d like a new golf club? Nah – she’d probably just give it away, say, to her son. That seals it – mom’s getting a new driver. :)
My tired-head is getting worse, so I will wrap this up. One request – as your pastor and fellow believer, I am asking that you make it out tonight to the Pole Barn at
Free,
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