The Pastor’s Blog
Daylight Savings Time Begins – Sunday, March 8th
Remember to set your clocks ahead one hour Saturday night, before going to bed. It’s also a good time to check the batteries in your home smoke detectors!
Wednesday Night Bible Study at MFC
We meet each Wednesday night at 7p.m. Join us in studying the book of Matthew.
The New Sunday School Class on “Friends” Begins March 8th and runs through March 29th. Jesse Davis will be leading this class and encourages anyone interested in learning about Friends or wanting to become a member of the church to attend. Topics include: Friends History, Friends Theology, Friends Practices and Covenant.
St. Patrick’s All Church Potluck – Sunday, March 15, 2015
Please join us for a fun time of fellowship and food! Wear your best greens that day and be creative in making your main dishes, side dishes and desserts “GREEN”! Be sure to plan to stay for some Irish Trivia games!
Friends Women Missionary Fellowship Meeting
All ladies are welcome to join us, we will meet at 10 a.m. at the home of Lena Anderson on Thursday, March 19th. A buffet luncheon follows the meeting.
Mark your calendar for the Friends Women’s Annual Spring Rally at Talent Friends on Saturday, April 25th, at 10 a.m. This year’s theme is “Journey with Jesus” Psalms 121. Guest speakers, Lana Thurston and Cheryl Engel are from Boise, ID. We are delighted to have them share about their trip abroad under the Yearly Meeting Friends Traveling in Service Program to Palestine. There they spent 3 months visiting and assisting Elizabeth Todd at the Ramallah Friends School. All ladies are welcome and encouraged to bring a friend. There will be a lunch at noon.
March Mission some of the congregation are putting together a work party to go to the Hoopa Reservation out of Eureka, possibly as early as the last week in March. If you are interested please circle “R” on the response sheet and turn it in the offering. If you have questions see Nate Swift.
Spring is Approaching…It’s not too soon to be thinking about joining in the Medford Friends Community Garden! If you are at all interested there is space available. For more information please see Nate Swift or email him at nateswift@clearwire.net.
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Can it really be the end of February already? This month has flown by for me. I am feeling a bit more settled in and am getting the hang of my schedule a little more every week. I have been spending a lot of time at home. This is nice for the most part but it tends to leave me feeling isolated and alone. That is not good. Feeling alone and isolated can drive us to seek connections that are unhealthy and often dangerous to our relationship with God. Knowing this is true I have been trying to find places with people to connect with.
I was blessed with some wonderful and fun human interaction this past week. On Friday I got to go bowling with some awesome people from our church! I don’t go bowling often so I didn’t have high expectations of a great score (which was fair, I don’t think I broke 100) and just went hoping for a fun time. It was great! I met the couples and a few of their kids and we bowled like no one was watching (hopefully no one was, cause man do I stink!). One of the greatest blessings was getting to know these people better and interact with their kids.
The other blessing I received was on Sunday. Drew Krupp (one of our amazing youth leaders) and I have been meaning to go play some disc golf and finally took the chance to go up to Grants Pass and play at a beautiful course there. Our first round after not playing together was more about breaking the rust off, and boy was I rusty! While we were playing we met a guy who was playing by himself and asked if he could join us. We said yes and went on to play a couple holes with Shane before his friend Bill came and joined us too. What started as a simple game to get our throws back for Drew and I turned into an afternoon of walking with these two strangers for a little while and chatting back and forth about life and the best disc to throw for a particular shot. It was one of the best days I have had since moving to Oregon!
These two stories remind me of how important it is to be out and engaged with people where they are at. Finding safe spaces to interact with others can be a challenge nowadays. One way we can do this is join people where they are at and walk with them for a bit. Get to know them, have a relationship with them, and open the door for deeper interaction by letting them know they are safe with us.
As we go into March be thinking about what you like to do. Consider places or spaces where people are doing that thing and see if you can join them. Recognize that your hobbies and activities are important to God’s kingdom. He created you with those gifts and abilities to further His plan of redemption wherever you are.
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Sunday Scripture for 3-1-15
This week we will be focusing on Matthew 7:1-29. Take some time to meditate on this passage and look for three things: a word, a phrase, and a theme. Write these things down and come back to them on Sunday morning before we gather together!
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Sunday Scripture for 2-22-15
This week we will be focusing on Matthew 6:19-34. Take some time to meditate on this passage and look for three things: a word, a phrase, and a theme. Write these things down and come back to them on Sunday morning before we gather together!
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