SECOND MEETING

September 28, 2011

I just finished with the blog entry and hit something on my computer and it all disappeared.  Don’t you wish other things would disappear (like laundry and dishes)?  Haha!  Starting again!

We had a great group of women at Knit Together today!!  We had nine newbies (and a lot of them brought new babies!) and even a visitor from Virginia!!  We started with the Prize Winning Question “Who has dishes left in their sink from last night?”  Jennifer and Elizabeth won!!  They each got to pick a present out of our gift bag. #1 Thank you for admitting it and #2 Thank you for letting us celebrate you in that you spent your time doing something different like loving on your family or actually going to sleep earlier!  As we read Ephesians together and soak up the truths that God wants to pour into us about how He sees us, we are able to lay down our “to do” list at night and realize that yes, Lord, there are only 24 hours in a day and yes, Lord, some of that time is for You!!  As the quote of the week last week reminds us, laundry and dishes are forever!

THANK YOU…

I feel like starting this like Paul’s letter to the church at Ephesians.  I thank my God for you all who came, encouraged, met together, drank coffee together, dared to share with strangers and blessed one another for being there!  Thank you so much for our childcare blessers, Aimee, Barbara, Theresa, Bethany and an added bonus, Kristen Packard brought her daughter Amelia and Amelia’s friend Ashley to help because they were out of school and they were awesome!!  God knew we needed the extra hands!!   Thank you Jodi and Hank for keeping us caffeinated!! Thank you Kathi Vod for an awesome lesson!!  Thank you everyone who brought someone new, adding to our sweet knit together group!!  And thank you Jesus for so showing up!!  Praise honor and glory to You!!!

EMAIL

Has everyone yet emailed Kathi Vod to tell her WHY YOU CAME TO KNIT TOGETHER? Tripandkathi@gmail.com ??  Please do!  She isn’t busy enough and this is really a way to overflow her inbasket with love (just kidding KBV!).  But seriously, please let her know.

REVIEW

Emilie Gate has kindly offered to be our review queen extraordinaire, so the following post will include her review.  I will, however, summarize a theme that ran through today’s lesson of Ephesians 1.  Kathi Vod sees things in word pictures and as she sees Ephesians, she relates the study to an analogy of swimming.  For some of us, we will be diving in the deep end, become immersed and really grasp the concepts of how deep and how wide this body of water is that relates to how God sees us.  Some concepts will not be as deep, and for those we will find ourselves floating by.  She then put on a very colorful (shocking how bright!!!!) swimming cap and invited us to go with her into the deep end.  Please see the attached picture, because I’m not sure we’ll ever see such a sight again!! 

REMINDERS

Workbooks are on sale in the foyer at church for $8 or during class for $10 (just kidding, only $8). 

Please sign up for childcare if you haven’t yet, as we are exploding (yahoo!!!!) with kids in childcare!!

PRAYER

The leadership team is praying for you, so if you have additional prayer requests during the week, let us know.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“OK, are we almost done being lost yet?” Yes, folks, that was my daughter Virginia Smith.  I am directionally challenged in the natural but with God’s grace (the Holy Spirit GPS really helps!) I am on the road trip to the destination He has picked for me! J

COOKING TIP OF THE WEEK
Just go on strike! (Just kidding, sorta).  For kids, make a face out of food, noodles as hair, ketchup for eyes, beans for mouth, etc.

Blessings to you this week,

Kathi, Kathi and Mary