Thursday,  November 3, 2011

Shalom Everyone -

Did anyone get any rain last night?  I was sitting at my desk at the office and it started thundering and the wind started blowing, but only a few drops of rain fell.  What gives?  I thought thunderstorms meant rain!  Apparantly not this year . . . and as I look outside at that mountain of scrap wood by our shop that keeps getting bigger every day - just waiting to be burned up, I'm reminded of the fact that lack of rain affects more than just farmers.  Too bad there's not a construction boom going on.  Concrete guys love weather like this!

I spent some time this afternoon with the tractor working on my younger son's place straitening up after the fire that swept through the Rhonesboro area a few weeks ago.  If you haven't been up there, you might want to take a drive down Hwy. 154 between the Harmony school and Rhonesboro.  It's something to see how a once-wooded area looks after a fire has cleaned out the underbrush and killed all the trees.

As part of our on-going quest to find a bigger place to meet in, Angie and I visited the Summit Heights Fellowship this past week.  Our daughter-in-law, Christle, introduced us to the paster, Ed Crouch, a quite interesting person to talk to.  He said he was interested in "Jewish" roots and that he and his wife keep the festivals at home.  Interesting!!!!!

Unfortunately, though they have a 28,000 sq. ft. building, there was not a suitable place for us to meet unless we used their main fellowship hall.  Since they are a very active congregation, with people coming and going all the time, I don't think that will work.  They are planning to close in some "unfinished" space in the near future, and according to the pastor - we would be welcome to use it when it's done.  In the mean time, the search continues!

This week is the "off" week in regards to a teaching during the Traditional Service.  Instead of a teaching, we'll have a Bible Study.  Since we finished up the book of Acts a few weeks ago, we'll move right on in to the book of Romans. 

Romans is a very interesting book . . . even more so when you study it through the Hebraic lens of the the Jewish Pharisee who wrote it.  I'm sure we'll see things we've never seen before!

I'll give a little background then we'll dive right in!

We'll be at Gladewater as usual. 

Shalom Aleichem

Sabbath Schedule

• Torah Study
  12:00 - 2:00 PM

• Snack Break
  2:00 - 2:30 PM   

• Traditional Service
  2:30 - 4:00 PM   

  • Announcements

  • Praise through Song and Dance

  • Blessings and Prayers

  • Teaching / Study

  • Closing Blessings

This Sabbath . . .
Torah Reading:

Lech Lecha
"Go Out"

Genesis 12:1 - 17:27

Haftara Reading:
Isaiah 40:27 - 41:16

Tnakh Portion -
Joshua 3

Blessings!
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