Rocky I, MLK, and Blankets

Today, I decided to continue my way through the ministerium. I attended the church closest to home.

When I arrived, everyone there recognized me as Pastor Jackie. It was a typical small church where mail is delivered to board members by placing it in their pews.

Today was blanket Sunday, over the 20 years they have participated in this endeavor, over 200 blankets have been collected and delivered to local hospitals and shelters.

The congregation was also on their way to providing a llama to missions (we are warm, we need to remember others). They were also gearing up to gather shoe boxes (not for Operation Christmas Child, but another organization). Cake and pie ingredients were also solicited for Thanksgiving boxes. A very mission minded congregation.

The scripture was the persistent widow in Luke. The message began with the persistence of Rocky in his quest to become a boxing champion. We then learned of the relative lack of power of a widow, a woman, in the time of Jesus' parable. We then moved to the civil rights movement and the bus boycott and the counter sit ins. Overall, it was a very safe sermon. No current events were mentioned. No hot button topics were used as illustrations.

Other than one granddaughter who appeared to be a frequent visitor, I seemed to be the youngest person in attendance.