Birthday party and Church
The Party on Saturday
Robert’s middle child turned 8. The gaggle of boys were really loud and rowdy, and Zane came to the backyard to be with the girls instead. They shared wagon rides and then helped Dori plant tomatoes and cucumbers, then water the garden. I think they enjoyed the garden more than the rest of the party.
Church today.
Finally, everybody was well enough to resume the Sunday School project for Zane. I felt really good about it when we were done with the hour. Every time I go to the Kid’s Ministry stuff I am left more and more impressed, and both kids seem to love it. I couldn’t be more pleased with the whole program and the people I have met there.
However, the worship service was sooo bad. The songs were annoying at best, weird melodies that I didn’t recognize and couldn’t figure out the alto/tenor parts to be able to sing (and the soprano lead was beyond squeaky for me) and just seemed uninspired. The sermon taught me a lesson in patience and the ability to resist temptation. (the temptation to chuck the hymnal at the preacher, a first for me). I just spent most of the sermon wondering if the guy ever actually studied biblical history and understood what the original documents say instead of the outdate, narrow interpretations of them. I am used to educated, intelligent ministers who, even if I don’t agree with them, at least are reasonably logical. This guy was out to lunch. I am not sure if I even want to go to another worship service there at this point.
As much as I want to, I will probably keep going for a bit to see if this is a fluke, or if it is the norm. I need to exercise patience and see if it improves. We will be able to go to a different service or Sunday School after Zane is mainstreamed into the Sunday School program, so I need to just hold my horses right now. I was hoping to be able to take Zane into the main service and get him accustomed to it, and this is the only reasonable option for that right now. (there is a service before his Sunday School, but I don’t want to wear him out in the big service before SS, so I need to give him time to adjust to SS first, then we can go to the earlier service without it causing as much difficulty for him).
*sigh* I wish I could combine the University or Chapel Hill service with the program at the MB church. Right now, it is more important that the kid’s needs get met than ours though, so I will have to just suck it up and deal. At least it does accomplish one thing very well…stimulates lots of discussion in the car afterwards. lol
