Midweek: Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
Midweek 2/9/22
IN THIS ISSUE:
• Music notes
• Serve Through Giving: Tornado Victims & Dignity Program
• Step Up to Help Heart and Sole
• The Lord’s Tune Up
“. . . that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.” Romans 1:11
Choir rehearsal is scheduled for Thursday, Feb.10th, at 7 pm in the sanctuary.
Scrumptious popcorn is half-price! Grab yours before it’s all gone!
Still interested in giving towards the relief fund for tornado victims in Kentucky? You can write a check to the church, put in the memo column: “Mayfield Presbyterian Church”, and put the check in the offering plate in the back of the sanctuary. Session will match $ per $ donated from our congregation to Mayfield Presbyterian Church in Mayfield, Ky. Thank you.
We still have the opportunity to help young women in Africa. Contributions are being collected until February 20th.The Dignity Program is a ministry developed by “Little Dresses for Africa”. This program teaches personal hygiene and provides materials to young women that are vital in meeting a specific need. Often, young women in Africa do not have the materials they need to appropriately address needs associated with their monthly menstrual cycle. Without appropriate materials to address their needs, these girls have to stay home from school. This can lead to great shame and discouragement. The Dignity Program works with churches and other interested organizations in providing these necessary items. FPC is currently collecting women’s undergarments: sizes small and medium in women’s cotton briefs of various colors and prints. Please place your contributions in the box in the entryway and they will be sent to Rockwood, MI headquarters, to be sent from there on to Malawi. Again, we are only collecting until Feb.20th. Thank you for sharing hope in this practical way.
REUSE Heart and Sole Shoe Collection. The Preschool Ministry is supporting a community project only until the 20th of February: Boone County Solid Waste Management District’s 10th Annual REUSE Heart and Sole Shoe Collection, February 1st-20th. They are collecting shoes of all types, sizes, and colors - mismatched or not, worn out or brand new. There is a container in the church lobby labeled for this project. The collective goal is 10,000 pairs of shoes so let’s help bring in the shoes! Search your closets, find those shoes, bring them in, and drop them in the bag. Let’s change that rhyme from “1,2: Buckle your shoe” to “1,2: Bring in that shoe”!
Bud Hunter was sharing with me this week the process of tuning the organ. Tuning the organ requires a team: one person to strike the desired notes on the instrument, and at least 1, if not 2, to climb up into the area where the pipes are and make necessary adjustments. There are 900 pipes. Each note for each sound (i.e. flutes, trumpets, etc.) needs to be played and assessed as to whether it is in tune or out of tune. As I thought about that process, I considered our walk with the Lord.
Do you ever feel as if you are “out of tune”? Do you ever feel as if the Lord is there at that keyboard working through all 900+ options for sound and every single one comes up needing attention? Bud shared that if the key played is in tune, then the team moves right on to the next key. Do you ever feel like the Lord just moves from one project to the next, not giving you much of a break – if any – in between tune-ups? This journey of discipleship is a process. Alongside the road we walk in this Christian life are many repair shops – to retune, reshape, and remold. Why? Because the Lord loves us too much to just let us be. Bud loves the organ and wants it to sound its best. So does the Lord cherish each one of us and wants us to “sound” our best.
We do not travel this journey alone but as a team. The body of Christ is made up of many members. The Lord loves and values each and every single part of that body, or to use this organ-tuning analogy: the Lord loves and values each and every note of this song. Together as a body we make up one song, or one keyboard. Just think – as Bud sits at that beautiful instrument and fills the sanctuary with praise and honor to our Heavenly Father, so the Lord sits at his keyboard (the body) and also plays a song of praise and honor to the Heavenly Father using each one of you. Are you out of tune? Do not worry; He will make the adjustments until you ring with beauty and glory. Do you fear a solo? Do not be afraid; you are not alone. Jesus is right beside you and you rest amongst a splendid arrangement of keys/members. The Master Musician plays the piece: He knows each note and plays with perfection. So tune on, Lord, that we may play for You a song of faith, hope, joy, peace, and praise. Amen.
The following lyrics are taken from Hymn #693 of the Glory To God Presbyterian Hymnal:
Dear Heavenly Father,
“Though I may speak with bravest fire, and have the gift to all inspire,
And have not love, my words are vain, as sounding brass, and hopeless gain.
Though I may give all I possess, and striving so my love profess,
But not be given by love within, the profit soon turns strangely thin.
Come, Spirit, come, our hearts control; our spirits long to be made whole.
Let inward love guide every deed; by this we worship, and are freed.”
Thank You for gifting us with so many ways to share Your love with others. Thank You for sharing Your love with us in such a bold, brave and beautiful way as Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross. Thank You for being our bridge our troubled waters, the balm for our sin-sick souls, and the song of love in our hearts. In Jesus’s name we praise and pray, Amen.
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