Great Quote from Pastor Ken!

Pastor Ken's sermon speaking about Numbers 4:13 - "They (the Levitical priests) are to remove the ashes from the bronze altar and spread a purple cloth over it."

In order to get over the hurts of yesterday, we need to be able to move on.

He said, "Yesterday's fuel becomes tomorrow's extinguisher!" Great thought! We can't stay trapped in the hurts of our past if we ever want to get over them.

Look What We Found at Church Yesterday!

Yesterday at the church we heard Kathy Sabella yelling about something she spotted in the hall. I was on the phone, so I didn't really pay attention to what was going on until I heard the words, "There's a SNAKE IN THE HALL!"

Immediately, I had to check it out, not because I'm brave...more like so I knew which direction to run!

Anyway, Lisa trapped it under a CD spindle cover, and then I was "brave" enough to get down close and check it out. I put my finger against the plastic, and the little snake coiled up in "striking" position and tried to bite me through the plastic. (What a dumb snake! Everyone knows CD spindle covers are snake-bite proof!) Kathy said that when she saw it in the hall, at first she thought it was a worm, but as she neared the cold-blooded killer, it coiled-up to strike at her, too!

Anyway, I snapped this picture of the snake. After comparing the snake with several images on the Internet, and after considering the aggressive qualities of this slithering reptile, get this: we think it was a COPPERHEAD!!!

Because of it's size, it probably would not have been poisonous, but it sure didn't like us at all. So, what did we do?

I told Pastor Ken about it and he came out and crushed it's head with a bat.

Awesome day at work!

Now...I've seen it all!

I spent the better part of the morning today with Pastor Ken doing hospital ministry. To tell you the truth, you never know what to expect when you're hanging with the guy. He says funny things, does funny things, and over all, he just cracks me up.

Anyway, everywhere we went, it seemed like he knows everyone. That's because he does. Just recently, he and Marlene celebrated 10 years at First Assembly. Everywhere he goes, people talk to him, and he's always waving at somebody or talking to someone who comes to, or used to come, or is related to someone who thought about coming...you get the picture. Everyone knows him!

Then, Pastor invites me to join he and Marlene for lunch. However, on the way to lunch at the Hermitage Hot Dog Shop, we stopped in the K-Mart parking lot. As we pulled into the lot, all of the seagulls start flocking over to the car! Why???? THEY KNOW HIM, TOO!!!

Seriously, he gets out of the car, and starts throwing bread crumbs to them...one of the funniest things, I've ever seen! You can't even begin to predict what he'll do next! Even the birds in this town know and love the guy!

Tomorrow (Tuesday, Nov. 20) is his birthday, so Happy Birthday, Pastor Ken!