Wow! What a treat to share the pulpit with our founding pastor this past Sunday on Sept. 19. 2010 for the 50th anniversary of Deerfield UMC being founded. Rev. Joe McMurry was here to preach, and what a great day of events we had. Lots of music, lots of food, lots of stories. I cried when I got to stand in the pupit with Rev. McMurry and I cried from laughing so hard at another previous pastor, Rev. A. B. Weaver. He was a true character. The day turned out so well. You would have never known that on Thursday just before our homecoming event, our water service was cut off because a huge leak had shown up on the system. Our guys worked with the Town of Boone, and our plumber to dig out the line and get it fixed all in the same day. We prayed that the leak was not under the pavement right in front of the driveway. I could picture a row of port a johns lined up on the outside of the parking lot for Homecoming if we could not get the water cut back on. Well, it all worked out. Two million gallons of water leaked about 6 inches on our side of the meter, sprayed back into a huge cement box which had a deep layer of rock underneath it. The extra water seems to have made it's way directly to the creek, only a few feet away from the leak, all underground. No soft spots for us to detect. It was a crazy day, but God saw us through, and the Homecoming was wonderful. The event went on with a blaze of glory! Thanks so much to our folks who worked so hard to make that happen!
Our next big project is getting ready for charge conference in one months time. What a challenge that will be. Boone is a great place to live. It is only about 80 degrees here today. Life here is good. Praise be to God for the opportunity to live a little closer to heaven.
Let's pray our way forward
Let the children come to me. Jesus
