Growing Together
Step into a virtual garden of spiritual growth and community connection with the "Growing Together" podcast. This podcast is a nurturing space for individuals seeking to deepen their faith, cultivate relationships, and explore the boundless beauty of a shared spiritual journey.
Each episode of "Growing Together" is a breath of fresh air, where Pastor Michael, Syd, Nic, Pastor Holly, and Pastor Roger try to navigate the twists and turns of life while staying rooted in faith. Their warm and inviting presence makes you feel like you're sitting in a cozy living room, engaged in a heartfelt conversation with old friends.
Diving into topics ranging from personal growth and self-care to building resilient relationships and fostering a sense of community, the podcast aims to equip listeners with the tools to nurture their faith in all aspects of life. Through scripture readings, open discussions, and interviews with experts in various fields, "Growing Together" provides a holistic approach to spiritual development.
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Growing Together
How to Serve the Community
When we talk about planting seeds of faith, it's rarely about actual gardening – yet the metaphor perfectly captures what happens through community outreach. Our conversation weaves through the extensive preparations for our annual Easter egg hunt, revealing both the logistical challenges (who knew 18,000 eggs could create such planning complexity?) and the deeper purpose behind this community tradition.
The Easter egg hunt, now in its fifth year, has become our church's most recognized community event. As we sort through colored plastic eggs and coordinate sectioned-off areas by age group, we're actually creating something much more meaningful – an opportunity for children and families to connect with our church in a welcoming environment. "These kids aren't going to remember that we didn't have hot dogs and water," one member points out. "They're going to remember getting muddy in the field, grabbing the eggs, and getting little Jesus figures in their Easter eggs."
Beyond the hunt, we explore our "Cupboard of Hope" emergency food pantry, which addresses a critical gap in traditional assistance programs by providing not just food, but essential personal care items like soap, shampoo, and deodorant. "You can't afford your groceries? You definitely can't afford the extra toothpaste," reflects a member, highlighting how this ministry preserves dignity alongside meeting basic needs.
The thread connecting all these outreach efforts – from Easter egg hunts to Lenten services to food assistance – is the concept of planting seeds that may take years to grow. We may never see the full impact of these community connections, but we continue faithfully cultivating relationships and creating space for spiritual curiosity to take root.
Have a need for emergency food assistance? Contact us at 740-922-1564 or join us for our Easter egg hunt on April 12th at noon at 1943 North Water Street Extension. Every interaction is an opportunity for new growth in our community.
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Speaker 2:I was just trying to see if I had the Linton.
Speaker 1:Oh, like where it's at tonight.
Speaker 3:Tonight is at Newport.
Speaker 1:Oh, is it out in Newport tonight?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Are they Methodist?
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:So is that their global?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:So Corey, is he there? He's got two churches right. He's got the Midvale one and the Yerkesville one. Do you know? Does anyone know?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 3:The pastor that was here. I know he's got two.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I think he did the Newport one, does he Okay?
Speaker 1:It's not Newport. It might be.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think it is.
Speaker 1:Okay, do we know who's preaching at Newport?
Speaker 2:tonight. That's why I was trying to find the schedule button.
Speaker 3:No, I don't know?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I meant to look at some point. This week my brain's just been going like 100 miles a minute and then I think of something and oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Do you write it down?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and if I yeah, that's the thing I'll write it down, and then you forgot where you put it.
Speaker 1:Well, not that I don't forget it, like. But then I'm like, why did I just write that down if I'm never going to go? Look at it? Like I write it down and then it sits on the refrigerator, I pin it up on there and then it's because I think, ok, if I write it down like mentally I'm writing it out, moving my hand maybe that'll do something. No, it doesn't. What's anything new this week? Oh, we should say michael's not here.
Speaker 2:yes, right, if they haven't figured out and you see what, except in an award an award of some sort, yeah, for being outstanding in the field in the field in the cornfield.
Speaker 3:Yeah, in the field.
Speaker 1:In the field In the cornfield.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:For the railroad association.
Speaker 3:Yeah, railroad festival.
Speaker 1:Yeah, is it considered an association or just like the board, like what I don't know?
Speaker 3:He's on the railroad board. Right yeah, railroad board, railroad committee.
Speaker 1:Committee.
Speaker 3:Committee, committee. That might be what I'm thinking of.
Speaker 5:yeah, he's the prez prez he does a good job, though oh, I bet I mean he really does, I'm sure I keep trying to tell him you live in janayton now it's time to focus your time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and thoughts there on yeah, firework festival yeah or even well, this you could, he can pencil it. Pencil it in somewhere on his calendar.
Speaker 1:That's what he told me, but it's gonna have to be a real thin like alicia, the clerk at janet, and I think she stepped down from handling the 5k every year so he could just step on and do that.
Speaker 3:Just plan that real quick I don't think he would do that, because yeah, we want to do one for the railroad festival, and he doesn't want to oh, no, we need to find somebody to organize it.
Speaker 1:That's did them before you know what I thought was always a great idea, what? Having a 922K Isn't that brilliant, like instead of a 5K, because they have 10Ks, I mean it will basically be a 10K. No, yeah it would be a 922K.
Speaker 2:A 9.22. Yes, a 9.22.
Speaker 1:And you could have the bike trail Like oh, I've already thought this out, so maybe I'm that person, not right?
Speaker 5:now, though not this year. Why don't you just add that to the party right?
Speaker 1:the parties, the wedding, the bachelorette weekend yeah well, poor cooper I know he's getting neglected.
Speaker 5:Yeah, no wonder he's pointing his finger. It's so funny because he's so tiny, he is. Just walking around Walking around pointing that finger and telling you all about it.
Speaker 1:Yep, oh, he does, he really does.
Speaker 3:One of God's greatest gifts.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is.
Speaker 5:Enjoy everything.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's crazy how fast it's going, it goes very very fast.
Speaker 2:I just like, oh like, just ask us ours are 32 and 30. Yes, I know I'm like oh I bet geez my granddaughter's gonna be 11, then I've got one graduating from high school and a junior, you know I've always like.
Speaker 1:I've always thought it would go fast, like because my sister's 10 years younger than me, so I can remember Cindy being pregnant, I can remember her coming home, but I didn't think it would be this fast. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Oh, it's fast yeah.
Speaker 1:Especially then, once they start getting into sports and band and nonstop. Oh yeah, Then you have no time.
Speaker 3:It's soup and sandwich.
Speaker 1:Yeah, at 9, 10 o'clock, 9 o'clock at night right, been there, done that, know all about it.
Speaker 3:Weekends, baton Dance Go to Cleveland Clumble it, clumble it, clumble it. Well, that's clear. Or Columbia Go to Cleveland Columbo Columbo Well, that's close to Cambridge.
Speaker 2:Or Columbia that's a suburb down there.
Speaker 3:That's close to Cambridge. It's kind of like in between.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well then the next generation. They don't go there, they go to. Where do we go?
Speaker 1:Louisville Kentucky, mm-hmm Florida, mm-hmm South Carolina. Yeah.
Speaker 5:They can't just stay in the state. Then they got to go yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, that's what makes it fun, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And expensive and expensive.
Speaker 3:Yeah, not only the outfits. And then you know the lessons. Yeah, and then the traveling, and then the hotel. Well, and then like know the lessons, yeah, and then the traveling, and then the hotel. Well, and then like the food when you're at the hotel, the gas, yeah, yeah, I wouldn't want to do it now.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I mean that'd be way too much.
Speaker 5:But it was enjoyable. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, we were kind of talking about extracurricular activities, so I guess this could kind of lead into our topic kind of okay, kind of yeah, it's just like kind like our not events, what do you call that um? Services yeah services that we do here. So we've got the Easter egg hunt we'll talk about. Yeah, it's coming up.
Speaker 3:How many eggs have we got? 315?
Speaker 5:million 18,000. There's way too many. It was packed at my house.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I still have. I sent a picture in our young adult group. So I have a coffee table and technically the top comes off of it and you could put blankets in it or something, but I've just never put anything in it. So I put the eggs in there, like they're still in the bags and stuff. But I'm like, hey, out of sight, out of mind, so I'm gonna keep them right there in the coffee table. So when I'm scrolling here and you know, I'm like, oh crap, I see the, the eggs. I better do those instead.
Speaker 3:So yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:It is coming up fast.
Speaker 5:I had to bring mine in, and then I had to bring in the candy that wouldn't fit in the eggs Yep. Because they fit in my belly Yep, that's fine, yep. I'm like driver's like you got to get them out of here.
Speaker 1:I'm like, yeah, I but can you remember how many eggs we started with the first year? Was it 1,000?
Speaker 3:No, we had a couple thousand, did we?
Speaker 1:Like 3,000, maybe, yeah, maybe yeah.
Speaker 3:See now we've seen how we're mowing the back 40.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the back 40. Yeah.
Speaker 3:But you know it takes a lot. It's definitely extended.
Speaker 2:Yeah, are we looking at like 20,000?, 20? I it takes definitely extended a lot, yeah, are we looking at like 20, 20, I want to say you said 18 000. What did we do last year? I don't remember it was more than that was. It had two, yeah, had both four square helped last year I want to.
Speaker 5:Oh, that's right, that's right I'm thinking we did close to almost 20 000 each church, I was thinking, but I don't hold me to that.
Speaker 4:Do you remember Nick? It was a lot.
Speaker 5:It was a lot I was thinking yeah.
Speaker 2:I was between like 30,000.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it was a lot of eggs Put them in a golf cart. Yeah, drag them out, yeah.
Speaker 3:It's fun, kids enjoy it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, it's a good time.
Speaker 2:That's what that's. April the 12th yes, saturday at 12. It'll start at noon and we're not doing like hot dogs and chips this year right just doing cookies and drink little snack foods, yeah, um, now.
Speaker 1:So I've never been to one yet. Shame on me, because I had to always work them. Well, not work them, but work on a saturday. Um, so do we do the Easter egg hunt like the actual hunt before the story, because he'll kind of talk about the Easter story.
Speaker 3:I think he did that first last year, last year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, that's smart.
Speaker 3:Kind of because it gives the kids something to do. I don't know if he's going to do magic this year again or not, I don't know. That's right.
Speaker 2:He didn't mention it. But. And then there'll be the giveaway, there'll be the baskets.
Speaker 3:I'm not sure what all we're giving away this year. They'll do that after.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when everybody comes in Now for each age group there's like per se, like a golden egg, right that gets the prize of that age group Winner. Winner chicken dinner.
Speaker 5:Yes, okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Now how many age groups do we have? Do we know or what they are?
Speaker 3:Well, we got the little guys, little little, our preschoolers.
Speaker 1:Little Cooper. Yeah, cooper and JJ.
Speaker 4:Yeah, cooper and JJ, I was thinking there was, at what, at least four different groups.
Speaker 1:Like zero to three or zero to two.
Speaker 3:Two, three, four or five, Five to seven, five to eight and then, nine to 12, and then maybe one more, 12 plus or something yeah 12 plus to my age. I mean we're going out to get some eggs this year, yeah. I don't know. I've run over a few last year with the color People didn't get it A few that got left behind. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5:Rosalyn was so funny last year and she didn't get very many eggs because she had to stop and see what she got in each egg.
Speaker 1:So she would find one and open it and move on to the next one and open it.
Speaker 4:That's, and open it and move on to the next one and open it. That's funny. Yeah, I remember the first year I did it, uh, I think I was in that, like I don't know if it was a 9 to 12 or 10 to 12, whatever it was, but there was a bunch of rowdy boys. They're raring to go, you know, and it was like wait, you gotta wait because you know we do one group at a time, yeah, and they're kind of pushing and shoving and I'm like you know, all right, it says you know, I can't disqualify you flaunting his authority, I don't want to see any pushing, I want to see any shoving he took that volunteer badge to a whole new level.
Speaker 5:Yes, yes.
Speaker 4:I could tell they were already at each other. Just waiting. It's like you can't be disqualified and one kid goes really.
Speaker 1:Yep, we've got officials, they're watching.
Speaker 5:See, that's your door. You should have opened, you can be disqualified from heaven. Yeah, that's your door.
Speaker 1:You should have opened you can be disqualified from heaven if you don't. Yeah, that's true, really. So we do age groups at different times.
Speaker 4:I believe. So, yeah, don't we release one of them.
Speaker 3:Well, you let the little kids go out and then, like the, oh and aren't they sectioned off, didn't? Last year weren't they sectioned off for each group?
Speaker 1:okay, it's in the ground we have I knew it was sectioned off, I just wasn't sure how.
Speaker 3:Yeah yeah, yeah, we'll stake everything off and we rope everything and then put the ages yeah, set up yeah, groups and then get that way people as you can, and yeah, that way the volunteers know where they're supposed to go, yeah well, I volunteered inside last year.
Speaker 1:That's smart. And it did rain. I thought it did rain last year.
Speaker 2:It was a good place for me to volunteer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, didn't it clear up just in time?
Speaker 3:Yeah, but it was nice when everybody went outside.
Speaker 5:But it was so funny because the slugs didn't like the rain.
Speaker 2:They crawled in the eggs, that's right, I forgot about that they're so gross. Don't worry, they don't eat much.
Speaker 3:They don't like chocolate yeah.
Speaker 4:Last year I had to police again, but this time I was policing the pop and water table and I had to make sure that nobody was coming up there, doubled up, doubled up or was getting to before we got started. You know, it's like the adults were harder to control than the kids.
Speaker 5:They are Well. I think they had kids getting coffee.
Speaker 4:It's like no, you do that Michael's like you're in charge of guarding the pop and water. I'm like, okay, I'm like you're in charge of guarding the pop and water. I'm like, okay, I'm like how do I approach this? Because you don't want to be rude or mean, but at the same time, it's like you gave me a job to do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because we had an X number. Yeah, we did and we had a lot to turn out.
Speaker 5:This year would probably be wise if we don't put that out until we're ready to let it happen Out until we're ready to let it happen.
Speaker 3:You better make a little steel cage, this little hole that you slide through.
Speaker 1:Yeah, limit one.
Speaker 5:Exchange a pink egg for yours Purple.
Speaker 1:So is Michael, always the head honcho. I know he doesn't like to be the head honcho for it. For what? Like? Whenever people are like, hey, what should I be doing? Like, who is giving the orders?
Speaker 5:Michael Michael.
Speaker 1:Michael yeah.
Speaker 3:Because he has in his head how he wants it.
Speaker 2:I can see that, yes, yeah.
Speaker 3:It's just like mowing. He has got to be a certain way. This is the way I want it done.
Speaker 2:I get that. Yeah, I like my mowing done a certain way as well.
Speaker 3:And if it's not done his way, he gets a little ouchy.
Speaker 5:Yeah, oh, I'd be going out there doing figurines. How's this what you?
Speaker 3:wanted. He really went ballistic when somebody used the big mower on the front yard and turned and kind of.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, awesome.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I heard about that for two weeks, wouldn't be, though I didn't do it.
Speaker 5:Wasn't you that did it, I know better. Hey, just make sure when you mow around the flowerbed you're blowing the grass away from the flowerbed, so you don't get missed. On all row, I do.
Speaker 3:I do Trust me.
Speaker 2:One of the boys were mowing last year. One of the young boys I don't remember which one it was who was mowing Easton or?
Speaker 3:Emmett.
Speaker 2:And so I went over and I said to Emmett I said, buddy, when you're mowing by the flower beds, you got to turn that mower that directly.
Speaker 5:The thing is they should be mowing with the bagger on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I never thought about that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know, but I mean that's.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then empty the bag when it's yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, because you can, oh yeah, and if somebody mows and don't empty the bag you hear about that too, Wasn't me Tell them hey, free help, you better be grateful. We have someone that they're going to mow the grass in the front.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I can see why he would like want things done a certain way. Yeah, because it makes the appearance done a certain way?
Speaker 5:Yeah, because it makes the appearance.
Speaker 1:And not to mention even for the Easter egg hunt. I feel like it is our biggest. I feel like a lot of people only know us because of the Easter egg hunt. You know what I mean?
Speaker 4:Yeah, so it's almost like our Super Bowl, not to mention it's a lot of people and they're all out in an open space where everything can get out of control really quickly, fast If things and they're all out in an open space where everything can get out of control really quickly. Yes, fast, yeah, yeah, If things aren't done a certain way. I have the right people in charge.
Speaker 1:For sure yeah.
Speaker 4:Everything can get out of hand real quick. Go south real fast.
Speaker 1:Well, especially From down to the parking the parking the field is wet because April is, you know, march or April is always wet and rainy, and it's a field that holds water, so it's going to be a disaster regardless.
Speaker 4:I have no idea what to expect until the day.
Speaker 1:The day yeah.
Speaker 3:You know the best part of the back, the back 40? Being dry. It's almost back to the end where the baseball diamond was. You don't remember that.
Speaker 1:You remember that I know what you're talking, where you're talking, though, yeah.
Speaker 3:Clear. You don't remember that. You remember that. I know what you're talking, where you're talking now. Yeah, clear, clear. Yeah, that's actually the driest.
Speaker 1:Like where the tree line is kind of yeah.
Speaker 3:This way you know where that? Have you been all the way to the back, Mm-mm? Well, there's an old rotten fence post there.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:And from there about three quarters of the way to the tree and three quarters of the way this way to the front. It's pretty nice, it's nice and dry, even when it rains. Probably because there should be a baseball field there, as there was.
Speaker 1:There should be one again Years ago.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I didn't play there.
Speaker 1:I think my dad played there. My wife be one again Years ago. Yeah, I didn't play there.
Speaker 3:I think my dad played there, my wife did but, I didn't, I was, I was uh, I don't want to say being a heathen I thought that's where you're going but you know well then what?
Speaker 2:we're having an easter sunrise service on easter, easter sunday yeah, we're having breakfast too, and breakfast with breakfast and we had.
Speaker 1:We had breakfast last year too.
Speaker 5:And then the service will follow that at 10?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think he said normal time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and there's enough time in between. You can almost take a nap.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or you can go home and change your clothes, or whatever it is, oh no, I can't go home and change my clothes, it's too far. Oh, you know, because when my kids were young we came to Sunrise Service and the kids in their pajamas.
Speaker 3:When my kids were young, we came to sunrise service and our kids in their team in their pajamas.
Speaker 2:When our kids were young, yep, where we went to church was it close it was yeah, it was in port washington, so probably about the same distance yeah, about six miles yeah, six miles from the house, but it was always cold.
Speaker 1:You were always freezing generally, so I can remember going um on top of the hill at my grandma's church it was. It was technically for saint peter's, like lutheran church, but it was literally like her her house from the church is a few valleys over, but like from her house to where they had the sunrise service, it was right on top of the hill. So, yeah, we would just go in our pajamas. So yeah, so pretty though too.
Speaker 1:Like so pretty with that hillside and seeing that come up and the cross being there, yeah, yeah, as far as breakfast, do we know what we're having?
Speaker 2:Breakfast food I don't know that Pastor Holly has asked for anything specific. No, I think she was. We did what casseroles?
Speaker 5:last year she was thinking like breakfast and casseroles and you know, like you're saying Pastries, yep, pastries and stuff.
Speaker 1:Easier things. Yes, because I mean it'll be a busy morning for everyone, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 2:So you know, yeah, so I mean, that's what we did last year.
Speaker 3:I just assume that except I'll be doing my easter sunrise service in florida.
Speaker 1:So oh, darn, oh I really feel for you. I don't.
Speaker 5:She just like hunched over, like please don't hit me, please don't hit me, that was sarcasm who am I gonna talk to at six o'clock in the morning because she won't want me calling her on vacation, Michael.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, she's like nah, that's at 6.30. Go past Holly since she's retired. No, I ain't calling her 6.30 either she's, like I, retired for a reason Sleep in.
Speaker 5:She made me laugh.
Speaker 2:She said that Dave the other morning didn't let the dog out when before he left to work, so the dog was up there bugging her to get up.
Speaker 1:He's like well, you're home, now you can let him out mine, you don't.
Speaker 3:It doesn't make any difference what they know what time it is. They don't care if it's sunday or monday morning yep 4, 30 that's how my neighbor's dog.
Speaker 1:It's 4 30 but they have to walk him in the cemetery because I'm it's a rescue dog. He has some issues, I don't know, but he's very, very, very, very needy. But they're walking in the cemetery at 4 30 in the morning so their dog can go pee. I'm like like every single night.
Speaker 3:I'm like uh-uh ain't nothing, they never gonna hurt you, right?
Speaker 2:it's all dead probably know that they're out there walking every morning yeah, yeah, that's true, except I just told everyone.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Jarvie lets Smurf out at 4.30, but he'll one up again about out again when I get up. And sometimes I put him out just because I don't want to hear him bark, yeah, but go bark outside.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Because I'm going to listen to it in here.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you don't forget about him, do you?
Speaker 5:No no.
Speaker 3:I just open the door and go.
Speaker 2:Mine has a doggy door. She lets herself in and out nice listen, you'd never forget him, because one tell you he is a foo-foo dog.
Speaker 5:He does not like to be outside, doesn't matter if it's warm it doesn't matter if it's cold. He wants back in as soon as he's done and he jumps and hits that door continuously, boom, boom until you let him back in.
Speaker 3:And he jumped so well that he broke one of my windows that Dawn had to repair for me. Dog didn't get hurt, did he?
Speaker 5:No, that was my biggest fear. Dawn's like she sends me a picture. She's like hey, was your sunroom window like this when you went to work? I'm like no. I'm like is the dog okay? She's like no, no he's fine, there's we.
Speaker 1:I've never really realized it, but like our side door sometimes doesn't latch when you shut it. I'm like making something last night and I hear the door. I'm like, wait a minute, I look out. Cooper is out on the freaking side door. I'm like, or the side porch, and there's not a lot of porch there at all.
Speaker 2:No, I was like I'm like get back in here, wait till he lets the dog out. He's out there pointing this bird is it a bird or is it a duck, or is it a?
Speaker 1:squirrel. Oh, he's been obsessed with like the bunnies. Like because all the bunnies for easter, like all those little cute decorations. And we saw a bunny at herschberger farms. He could care less. He was like disgusted with it because it was like a real bunny. I was holding it and this thing's like going insane, like trying to jump off of my shoulder and I'm like here, you want to pet it? He's like no, we don't need no bunnies, let the thing go. I was like basically sitting on this girl's lap just waiting for her to be done with the bunny and they're like let's put the bunny back so someone else can take a turn. I'm like I'll take it. And then cooper didn't want anything to do with it. Yeah, all right. So we covered the the Easter egg hunt pretty thoroughly, right.
Speaker 4:Yep, we did say what day and time it is right. Yep.
Speaker 2:It's April 12th. April 12th.
Speaker 4:At noon, at noon yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't know our address off the top of my head 1943 North Water Street North Water Street Extension, new York, new York, new York New.
Speaker 3:York, new York, I think Ohio.
Speaker 2:I think it's 1943. If you're nearby, stop on in.
Speaker 5:Yeah, united States. For our ones that are in other countries, yeah.
Speaker 1:However many of you there are out there. Yeah, 1943. So we talked about that. So now let's talk about Lenten services. How many do we have left after tonight?
Speaker 2:three there's tonight the 9th and the 18th on Good.
Speaker 5:Friday where's the one on Good Friday?
Speaker 2:at Good.
Speaker 4:Friday is at Denison.
Speaker 2:Foursquare with Dave Pastor Dave Bryan or Dave Bryan is the speaker Bryan like B-R B-R-Y-A-N. Dave Bryan.
Speaker 1:Is it the same time that they've been like seven? Yeah?
Speaker 2:Tonight Rod Phillips at Newport, Methodist.
Speaker 5:That's the Four Square Gospel Pastor right. That's the Denison Four. That's the Four Square Gospel Pastor right.
Speaker 1:That's the Denison Four Square. Denison Four Square, yep.
Speaker 2:April 9th is at Euricsville, presbyterian with Matt Davis.
Speaker 1:I don't know him either I don't know that one either.
Speaker 2:And April 18th, on Good Friday, dave Bryan at the Four Square in Denison. So those are our Lenten services.
Speaker 5:I don't think it's nice how the community comes together and does that, I do too. The different denominations and they come out and support yeah Church that's being held at.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then usually afterwards there's a little Dinner or something, and I would have stayed last.
Speaker 1:You know, when we had ours. But Cooper Chase posted a picture and said something and I would have stayed last, you know, when we had ours. But cooper chase posted a picture and said, got kicked out of church and cooper's sitting in the car like, tried, like eating this straw, or something like, oh my gosh. But if it wasn't for him you know it's his bedtime, so like, but I would have stayed at eight. You know, like just, there were a lot of people and and people really did stay a lot longer at hours.
Speaker 1:At hours.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was surprised the number that did stay, but Pastor Holly always has tables set up.
Speaker 2:She always makes it very inviting.
Speaker 1:It's always beautifully decorated yes, and very welcoming.
Speaker 2:People want to stay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we've got the room for it. You know like I've been to some places where it gets crowded like if they're doing it in the basement or something you know.
Speaker 2:Yes, well, some were just in the foyers. Yeah, oh yeah, the foyers of their church, yeah, what?
Speaker 3:were you saying I won't say Okay.
Speaker 4:So explain what's different between a Lenten service and just a regular Sunday service.
Speaker 3:They have an agenda that they're—.
Speaker 1:Trying to push.
Speaker 2:Well, like 40 days of. Jesus is fast before Easter, yeah, yeah, so they're focusing on—everybody's got to— I think everybody has a verse that they're given.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and then they have to get their—.
Speaker 2:Like Pastor Holly's verse was Pastor Holly's sermon or their teaching from that verse? Yeah, because Pastor Holly's was the thief on the cross.
Speaker 1:That was what her sermon was it's almost like the buildup, the teaching yeah, like the first one was Father.
Speaker 2:Forgive them, it doesn't give me the verses, but. And then Pastor Holly's was today, I will be with you. And then Nicole Bache, at Denison Presbyterian was woman. Behold your. That's all it says, though. But there was woman, behold your. I can't think right now. Cory that preached here was why has thou forsaken me? And then tonight is I thirst on the ninth father into your hands. And on good friday, it is finished, so the build-up of yeah. And on Good Friday, it is finished, so the buildup of.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so the messages are not random, they all stand around, they all kind of go together. Yes, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what was the first one? If you have it pulled up, Father forgive them. Okay, I was just trying to see if it was like a good transition. Yeah, it seems.
Speaker 3:I don't know who gives those out. I don't know who figures it out.
Speaker 2:The pastoral association. Probably yes.
Speaker 1:Because they meet what monthly or quarterly anyway? Monthly, monthly, monthly or quarterly anyway. Monthly, monthly, like once a month.
Speaker 2:I mean because it's time for us to reflect on our Christian life and our faith and to deepen our faith.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:A lot of prayer and fasting, some giving. We should be generous and be giving.
Speaker 4:We had what? Over 150 people here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes, mike said he counted 162,. I believe.
Speaker 4:Would you say most of those people are from other churches, or are we getting people that are thinking about coming to church? I'd say or normally don't come to church, but somehow do come out to the services.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think a lot of them were associated with other churches yeah yeah, yeah yeah, I don't really think we had people that were searching for a new yeah I think they were just other. Yeah, goers like.
Speaker 1:It's always funny when chase knows everyone from the community like, and whether he likes to or not like, people just know him because, and you know, normally it's always like we'll be in myrtle beach or somewhere and I see probably two or three people. Never fails he's like you know, everyone. But that night he was like oh, that's so and so, and that's so and so. I'm like oh, you know, like yeah. There were definitely a lot of people from the community like, yeah that's cool yeah it is it's.
Speaker 5:They had to bring out extra chairs yeah, yeah, we were seated for 150.
Speaker 1:Do we know how many? We ended up? How many extra?
Speaker 2:ones we put out. Well, I don't know, but Pastor Michael said he counted 162.
Speaker 1:162 actual people.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's awesome.
Speaker 5:Yeah, very nice turnout yeah.
Speaker 4:Would it be a good place for somebody to start, if they were thinking about coming to church? Would a Lent service be something that would?
Speaker 3:I think maybe if they heard all of the messages.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But just to hear one, I don't.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:If you haven't been a regular church member or heard the word I don't.
Speaker 2:I don't know how I would have felt about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, prior to being yeah yeah, that to be my first experience especially like even, like you know, we made sure that the music wasn't too much for people, or like chase was like this song this song I'm like chase, we got it, we got, we've got some presbyterians. No offense, you know what I mean, but we're just all different, you know. So our music is usually fast-paced.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And loud.
Speaker 2:Yes, we are loud, yes.
Speaker 3:When I was standing there at the back door I did hear a lot of comments from legacy members that they enjoyed the worship.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I enjoyed it?
Speaker 1:Yes, I think we. Yeah, it was. It was definitely. Yeah, I mean, well thought through, you know. And yes, there was. There was one song that everyone knew um. I can't think of what it was. Can you guys think what? We only did across did we do that one yeah did we it was the last song then, yeah, that's what it was, yeah, yeah yep like I. I feel like that song like people.
Speaker 1:They kind of forget they know it, but then once it turns on they're like oh, yeah, yeah, it's automatic, yeah yeah, yeah, but I think if it was and I feel like people that are searching for a church, maybe maybe even searching for a church and plus new to faith, you know what I mean Like maybe that wouldn't be the best, but I also don't feel like they would the true flavor of the church, yeah, and I don't feel like Well, you're not having that church as regular pastor. Yeah exactly and like I don't think they would even have a desire.
Speaker 5:Like they would kind of be like well, what's a lenten service, I'll just wait for a normal service. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, yeah, it's um. It kind of made me chuckle when pastor holly was doing her service that she got um pastor john stevens's church, that is also pentecostal.
Speaker 1:That's where I came from.
Speaker 5:She might have made some head rules in her church.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, but even like that, like she broke the ice from doing a joke you know, yeah, yes, Whatever works. Yeah, yeah, going to different denominational churches?
Speaker 3:and preaching is it different? Oh, I bet you know it's. I mean, you can, you can, you can have a message, but then you have to kind of read it's like it's like entertainment, you have to kind of read the crowd and see how far you can actually go with what you have.
Speaker 2:Because for Pastor Holly she started out pretty quiet, a little meek and quiet, but then, before you knew it, she was really giving it, she was her little one come out, that little one mighty yeah. Yeah, because what Pastor John Stevens said after she was done, she was calm and quiet and then she wasn't.
Speaker 3:The explosion.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:I think it'd probably be the worst thing you could do is try to change what you do, right, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like they're asking you to be there to be who you are yeah, you have to.
Speaker 5:But I think every church is receptive because, yes, it's all different denominations, but they work together. We're all trying to get to the same place.
Speaker 1:Some of us take a little bit of a different route, and I said that was it last week, and Michael's like, well, most of us. What else were we going to talk about? Our cupboard of hope, yeah, cupboard of hope, yes.
Speaker 5:Stage.
Speaker 1:Beth, stage Beth of hope.
Speaker 5:Yeah, covered of hope. Yes, that is our stage, beth stage. It's our three-day emergency food pantry.
Speaker 1:That we have here. That was your vision. You started it, your little baby.
Speaker 5:Yes, yes and uh. I not only want to, you know, fill their bellies, but I also want to feed their souls. There's so many in this area especially that do need help.
Speaker 5:Oh yeah, and my goal, you know, was to help in that area. A lot of the bigger pantries, you know they can only, you know, go every so many months or whatever. And the cupboard of hope you can come every 30 to 35 days providing we have the food. Cupboard of hope you can come every 30 to 35 days providing we have the food. Yeah, because, as a big fan, as the big pantries have government grants and yeah, like we don't have that.
Speaker 2:We don't have that. We're just church donated.
Speaker 5:We're just all church donations, so some months we're better stocked than others, but I will say that we have a faithful, faithful group here at the church that does keep their shells full.
Speaker 1:Now that brought up a good question Could we ever be a government-funded one eventually?
Speaker 5:I think eventually, if we grew to that point, we could be yeah.
Speaker 1:And part of my vision was not only I try to throw some personal products in there.
Speaker 5:You know soap, shampoo, toilet paper, garbage bags the things that people also need those and yeah, we just don't think about and yeah yeah absolutely and those are one things that um the large food pantries, they don't.
Speaker 1:They can't get that with the money that they get that that money has to be geared towards almost like food stamps you can't afford to buy your groceries?
Speaker 4:you definitely can't afford the extra toothpaste, the personal items, the garbage, yeah I was talking to somebody about that today. I say just never made any, because I was listening to um rfk jr talk about oh, yeah, you know what he's doing. And I said, and he was talking about this very thing, and I'm like it just doesn't make any sense that somebody can go out and buy Pepsi on food stamps, but they can't get a bar of soap, they can't get detergent, they can't get deodorant.
Speaker 1:Can't wash your laundry. It does not make any sense, no, right.
Speaker 5:It doesn't yeah, so it's. And some of these people, you know, I mean maybe they have a job interview and they need that deodorant yeah for sure.
Speaker 1:I need that hairbrush yeah, so that they can look presentable to go in because a lot of people don't choose this right and like they're trying to get this job to get out of this rut. But hey, I, you know, you know, don't have this deodorant. And like, hey, I will say, yesterday I tried this new spray deodorant and I was with my sister after work. I'm like, oh, and I know she would have told me the truth. I'm like I tried this new spray deodorant and like I can smell myself. Like can you smell me? And she's like no, but I'm like you know, here I was I think it was midday and I'm like, oh, my gosh, I can start to smell myself. Oh, no, I won't buy this again. I'm like it's only 1 o'clock. I've got until 5 o'clock. Like please don't smell me. But yeah, because it's like you know you don't want to.
Speaker 4:That impression, especially a first impression for a job, yes, well, and I think you got to think about young people, like they can't have good habits when they don't have it. Yeah, exactly, yeah, like like I said, the children. They should be able to have those things and if they don't have it, they can't practice those good habits. Exactly right, they won't develop those things.
Speaker 4:So, yeah, that's more important than I mean because I managed at the grocery store and I'd see people coming through with we'd sell back. Then you could get like four 12-packs for 10 bucks. Sure, yeah, yeah and people would just load up their carts full of Pepsi. Yep when it's on sale and they have kids and you're thinking man, they can't get. You know, you can tell they need shampoo.
Speaker 5:Mm you can tell they need shampoo and they're not getting it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it just never made any sense to me.
Speaker 5:Yeah, so uh, you know, our food boxes are pretty much the same every time. I keep a very um simple menu and it makes it easier for the people that do donate. Yes, so we can consistently. Otherwise, you get, and I don't- mean this, that I don't appreciate that. Yeah, otherwise you get a mixture of things. Yes, you're in there trying to put meals together. Meal with all these different. I totally, I totally understand that so it just works easier keeping yes very basic very yes and then they also um.
Speaker 5:We work with a local grocery store here and we have vouchers that they get a gallon of milk, a dozen eggs, A dozen bread. A dozen bread. Yeah, it's probably cheaper than a dozen eggs. Right now, they get a dozen eggs, a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread, and then they bill us monthly for it. Now, who is that? It's Makos. That's what I thought. That's nice.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and sometimes they bill us every two months, you know. If it doesn't hit $100, I think they hang on it to the next month Probably. So yeah, you can call the church phone number if they need it and I don't have that number or you can on Facebook you can go to the organic church and there's an application you can fill out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's a, not a. Is that a link or like a tab? I guess a tab on our website. Yeah, um, yeah, trying to think what, what else with it?
Speaker 4:is this your first experience doing something like this?
Speaker 5:No, I actually um when I went to the church um light in the Valley and newcomers town, I did one down there. Um that one got very large, very fast. Yeah, that's all very fast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was going to say you can, you can tell you've done it before, cause you you know what, you, what needs done and we did that one.
Speaker 5:We were open every Tuesday. It wasn't necessarily they still got three days worth of food. It wasn't necessarily emergency basis. We were just open every.
Speaker 2:Tuesday.
Speaker 5:And some Tuesdays we would run out of food and we'd wonder how we were going to have food for the next Tuesday, and God always provided always provided and I had a wonderful friend at that time that she worked at the homeless shelter and like when she would get overflow and they just had too much that they couldn't get through. Yeah, she'd call me and bring me stuff Nice.
Speaker 5:It was always like she always knew yes. And then I had another girlfriend at that time that did coupons, so she would be you know, hey, I got these. You know, stock up on this, and we did a lot of that. What's your?
Speaker 1:phone to stock up on this and and we did a lot of that phone number. Oh okay, the phone number is 740-922-1564. Yeah, and you know, you guys have even delivered.
Speaker 5:We have people. It's not something.
Speaker 1:It's not something we prefer, right, it's not something we really market, you know but there has been some incidents where we've had to yeah, because you want, we want to help them.
Speaker 5:Yeah, you know and um it, just um. I mean, I know I trust god, but it's just a little scary. I want to make sure that, if that is happening, that there is oh, yeah, always a man yep, that's smart delivery, did you?
Speaker 1:we had someone that was interested in West Lafayette, right, was that you who ended up?
Speaker 5:I did take one to.
Speaker 1:West.
Speaker 5:Lafayette and I normally would never go that far but God just really laid it on my heart.
Speaker 1:To do yeah.
Speaker 5:I mean, the woman was so honest with me. She said you know it's the end of the month, we're broke.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 5:I have gas to come get it, but my husband will never have the money. There won't be. There's no money to get more gas for my husband to get to work the rest of the week. Yeah, and they were very, very appreciative and you know we serviced them, put the food down and, you know, talked with them and, yeah, you know we haven't heard from them since but yeah, we planted that seed.
Speaker 1:Right, right, planted that seed right, right, and you planted that seed absolutely yep, yep and even you know, maybe, maybe, maybe you planted up more seeds than you know, like maybe they told their friends like hey, you know, or they're you know? Maybe they told their kids, or something like yeah, you know, hey, guess what? Guess what just happened to me, you know. And then they told them like and they don't know that.
Speaker 5:Very, very appreciative yeah, yeah so it's.
Speaker 1:It's a little slower taken off than the other one, but you know it's all in god's timing yep we are reaching the people he wants us to reach question are we do we know if we're going to market that at the easter egg hunt?
Speaker 5:I don't know, but Would that be a very good idea? Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Yep, because don't? And that's another thing. Do we have Easter bag like handout bags of some sort, or am I thinking of something else?
Speaker 2:Not that I know of.
Speaker 1:Okay, there was something that we Maybe I'm thinking of like the back to school bags, but or maybe it's Do you put anything in the boxes? Yes, okay, that's probably what I'm thinking.
Speaker 5:They get information about our church and church service. I usually have a little booklet I think it's from the Daily Bread that I get and I'll put one of those in there. I just ordered some tracks today, yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean even just I don't know having a QR code somewhere, you know.
Speaker 3:How did those work?
Speaker 4:Well, you need to be able to find your phone first.
Speaker 1:First, we got to find your phone.
Speaker 3:It's in my truck on the charger because it was dead.
Speaker 4:That's not going to do you any good.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to think how else you could advertise that there.
Speaker 4:It's not an ink flyer.
Speaker 5:I have a flyer up at the hospital.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 5:For some reason our hospital is excited to put the bulletin board back by the employee time clock instead of maybe out in the emergency room where people really need to see it. Emergency room yes, in the world. So you know, that is um.
Speaker 1:You know we've posted them at different places yeah, um, I'm thinking like, how are we going to advertise it at the easter egg hunt? You know what I mean, I think, and we have.
Speaker 5:We have to do it somehow, just have to tell people about yeah, tell.
Speaker 2:Tell that during his. Yeah, that's true, when he has the stage yeah, when they're getting ready to give out the prizes.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yep, and I have to say too about the Easter egg hunt this year because of the cost of things and that we were worried whether we were going to be able to do that or not. And we did get some generous donations from the Railroad Festival. They give a donation and then Ember Complete Care gave a donation. That's awesome.
Speaker 1:I wondered how we pulled through.
Speaker 2:Yes, that definitely made it possible, yeah because I don't think if it would have been for that, I don't think we would have been able to do it if we hadn't gotten those two donations.
Speaker 1:we had that wish list but like it wasn't even did, did we like fulfill that wish list? Do we know?
Speaker 5:I think we got some, some of the items off of that off the amazon.
Speaker 2:But then I think we found out that they could get things at sam's club, so much cheaper, a lot cheaper, yeah, um, so I think that you know with the money that yeah, it was a lot cheaper, a lot cheaper, yeah.
Speaker 5:So I think that you know, with the money that was donated, I think a lot of that candy was purchased through that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think a lot of the basket stuff was gotten through that.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah. Yeah, I didn't realize it cost so much to put that on. Yeah, I mean, we were talking what $6,000?
Speaker 1:Yes, I didn't realize it either. I think it was like my last year on council. Do you remember Nick going over? I don't know.
Speaker 4:You know honestly, I don't think we ever really discussed it yeah.
Speaker 3:We just did it, we just did it, did it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we just did it. We just did it did it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we just did it, yeah and uh. So I was kind of shocked myself, yeah, whenever, when he said that, I was like, wow, you know you don't think about, you really don't fill some eggs, oh yeah and we've already got the eggs. We keep the same eggs right, right, no, they're.
Speaker 5:Well, those are new eggs we bought last year when they went on sale yeah well and honestly like like last year's, though, they needed to go home with the kids, because there was no putting them back together.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, and like you know, like I've probably I think I have like 500 eggs right now and like there's no candy to, so I'm going to go buy candy, so like it's more than $5,000 or $6,000, because I'm sure I'm not the only one that's doing that. You know what I mean. I still have eggs that can be cooked.
Speaker 3:Make sure you take one of the eggs with you for sure, and tell us so you can make sure the candy fits in before you buy it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, do the math. I mean, like a bag of candy, say 300 pieces, you might be around $15 to $20.
Speaker 2:At least Depending on what you buy.
Speaker 4:yes, so times that times whatever 20 000.
Speaker 5:Yeah, oh yeah, because like yeah those boxes on amazon they were like 50 a box and it was like what? Five?
Speaker 1:pounds plus the, plus the skittles or the big things that you can't even use anyway. So like then you're not, like those things are just like disqualified, basically last year?
Speaker 2:I mean, didn't they even give bikes last year?
Speaker 5:yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, I don't know well, anyhow that I remember since I've been here.
Speaker 4:We've given bikes and yeah, yeah, those were all donated and the huge chocolate bunnies yeah well then to do the hot dogs and the, you know, the soda water but now we went with just the cookies and cookies and juice this year.
Speaker 2:That's why we're doing it after lunch, so that try to save.
Speaker 5:You know that money, the money and um yeah, and they're just financially I don't think we were in a position to do the bikes and that unless they were yeah right and then that makes it hard because you have to have one almost for every, every age yeah, age group yeah, so like four or five get a boy and you got a girl's bike right, you know, yes, so then you're like then it's hard to find a unisex bike.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like yes yeah, so, and then what other than that we have our sunday services at 10 am and our Wednesday night services after Lent is going to move up to six o'clock.
Speaker 1:OK.
Speaker 2:So our Wednesday nights will with Pastor Holly will be at six.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to think Is there any other outreach that we this podcast Shameful plug? We're doing our job. Yeah, well, that's a good point. You know, Michael told us that we should pray about it. We don't know what that has in mind so we would like everyone to pray for this podcast. I feel we're small, but we are mighty.
Speaker 4:I like to think that I don't know. We're right around three years now. Yeah, I think we started it. I don't know, we're right around three years now. Yeah, yes, I think we started it.
Speaker 1:Right around this time.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah. So yeah, we've been doing it for three years, and who would have thought I?
Speaker 1:know, yeah, seriously, like we just were like, well, let's just, let's try it, let's see how it goes. We're having a hard time coming up that's our problem.
Speaker 4:I know I'm telling you I'm gonna throw that one that I have today, anger, anger, michael, because yeah, well, we always like things to just kind of be loose, throw things out, but we might have to get a little more discipline. That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1:Three years, yeah, and you do so much you can yeah, and if anyone has an idea on topics or you know, because there's no handout, whenever you sign up for a podcast, they're not like, hey, here you go, here's your handout. Like no, we, we come up with it on our own.
Speaker 2:You guys are great on the spot, but I need time to think yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 1:I just feel like I was doing that, but then I would get out of the conversation because I'm like, hey, I gotta make sure I'm saying what I want. Like I would look at my notes and like oh, I gotta throw this in here.
Speaker 4:I'm like I don't know.
Speaker 1:And that's just my perfectionism being annoying, you know.
Speaker 3:I'm glad somebody's a perfectionist.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm not, I try to be.
Speaker 3:Well, at least you try.
Speaker 1:My poor husband will just say that.
Speaker 4:I think the main thing with all of the things that we do is that you know we're planting a seed.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 5:For everything that we do.
Speaker 4:So, even like the Easter egg hunt, you know, yeah, we can't do all the big things that we want to do. We kind of had to tone it down, but at the end of the day, it's still about planting the seed, which we'll do.
Speaker 1:And that's the thing.
Speaker 4:Like these kids aren't going to remember that we didn't have hot dogs and water, or hot dogs and doritos.
Speaker 1:They're going to remember getting muddy in the field, you know.
Speaker 4:Grabbing the eggs and getting little jesus's in their easter egg, you know and I think for a child it takes coming year after year after year yeah, like that could be a tradition for people to seed plants the seed in their head.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was a kid, this is what we did. I remember going there. Yes, yeah, yes.
Speaker 4:And then that's where things will grow for them.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:It'll be something as simple as that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's been what.
Speaker 1:This would be the fifth year, yes, fifth, I think it's the fifth, I think he was saying I want to say I remember him saying I remember something about, but I can't believe it's been five years because I didn't want to do it the first year.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it's been his idea He'll say oh, we're not doing it again.
Speaker 2:And then he doesn't again. He's his baby.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, yeah, somebody will mention it. Mm-hmm, yeah, somebody just plants that seed in his head, yeah.
Speaker 5:But I think though, too. I mean, you can explain to the children yeah, you're looking for Easter eggs, but you know, an egg represents new life. Yeah, you know, yeah, and that's what Christ gave us when he died on that cross. He gave us a new life because he took on our sins, otherwise we would never have that opportunity to go to heaven.
Speaker 1:I kind of had a thought when I think, when Corey was preaching last week. But when you get baptized, when people say you always come out of the water like a new person, I was like, yeah, like the wintertime, everything dies. But when you get baptized, then it's springtime, you're a new little leaf, that's just green and, you know, glowing, right yeah.
Speaker 2:Yep Springing up with new life, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 5:And I don't know what the biblical timeline was for.
Speaker 4:Easter.
Speaker 5:But if you look around at Easter, there's so much new life, All your little baby lambs calves.
Speaker 1:So much the little chicklets.
Speaker 3:Spring has rebirthed everything Right.
Speaker 2:All of those flowers popping up out of the ground, everything coming into bloom. Your flower beds look beautiful out there. Ms Dawn, they're looking good.
Speaker 3:I couldn't see them.
Speaker 2:You've got to get that surgery past your larger Little kittens start popping out.
Speaker 3:I do crazy. You get my eyeballs.
Speaker 5:And you're driving still.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's on autopilot.
Speaker 3:It knows its way, it knows its way that truck knows its way. Oh, believe me, it's a chore sometimes.
Speaker 2:Seriously, yeah, pray for Pastor.
Speaker 3:Roger.
Speaker 5:And his safe travels. So they'll do the measuring on Friday, and then do you have a surgery date.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the 21st and then the—.
Speaker 2:Second one's in.
Speaker 3:Second one's the 12th Of May Of May. They wanted to do it in two weeks, but that week, later on in the weekend, we'll be going to North Carolina. Oh, okay, so I didn't want to be driving.
Speaker 2:One eye yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, I only have one and a half eyes anyway, Most people have two.
Speaker 3:I got one and a half.
Speaker 1:How.
Speaker 3:When I had that stroke, it killed the top part of the nerve on this eye, so like if I close this eye and look at you, I only see like from the top of your head to maybe your mouth.
Speaker 4:So you're a jolly Roger.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I just don't have the patch. I'd like to be a jolly rancher.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:And not the candy.
Speaker 1:Outstanding in the field. Yeah, now I'm picturing Michael as a jolly rancher in the field. Oh, no.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:No, he's a Laffy Taffy Banana nut bread.
Speaker 1:I was going to say banana, banana nut bread.
Speaker 2:Well, Well, it was Pastor Michael's turn to pray.
Speaker 3:I do believe you prayed that I thought about that when I was sitting here.
Speaker 5:And guess who's sitting in his seat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I did this today, guys, and you did such a fine job. Oh crap, I can't remember. Do you remember?
Speaker 4:I forgot the button again.
Speaker 2:If you don't know where the music is, just start to pray, it'll be all right.
Speaker 1:Eeny meeny miny, I think it's B.
Speaker 2:Well, before we start, to prey.
Speaker 5:I will have kittens eventually for you no not for me.
Speaker 4:Margie said Give them away for Easter, all you little kids out there don't have a kitten, put them into a little basket.
Speaker 5:She is awful skinny. She comes back and eats, but then she goes back to wherever she had them. She did not have them at my house, but I figure by the time they're old enough to start looking for food. She'll be bringing them.
Speaker 3:That's when I'm going to pack them up and bring them to Margie. You should have mentioned at the Margie that you have some newborn kittens if she would like to have one Well.
Speaker 2:Margie listens, maybe that could be mentioned at the Easter egg hunt as well.
Speaker 1:There you go, we'll bring in the kittens. We'll have a box of free kittens.
Speaker 4:You know what happens to a pirate when they get captured.
Speaker 3:I can't swear on me this. That's a penalty.
Speaker 4:Penalty is death Nick did you hear me? What.
Speaker 1:You could have a box, a cardboard box, saying free kittens at the Easter egg hunt.
Speaker 4:You're welcome, my genius.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 5:She would never let that happen, I know.
Speaker 1:She'd have an application right there Like hey we're doing in-person interviews. Background check, fingerprinted right here, right now.
Speaker 4:But we can give away kittens, we'll even color them pink and blue and green.
Speaker 2:Green and yellow Pastel colors.
Speaker 3:It'd be like the chicks, just like the little chicks yeah.
Speaker 2:They sell Uh-huh, wow, genius, yeah it is genius.
Speaker 4:We're just waiting for them to start walking. They get up and they're shaking around. They're starting to open their eyes.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, she put us in pictures, I think yeah we had three, so you have six.
Speaker 5:No, I don't know how many I have. She had them away from the house. She's still pretty wild. If she's on the porch and I go out to feed her, she runs off the porch.
Speaker 3:But as soon as you put the food down and you go back in the house, she'll come back. Will she come back if you're still out there and you put the food down?
Speaker 5:She'll stay at the edge of the porch. She'll run completely off now, but she'll stay at the edge of the porch. Now, him, he's all beat up and battered and I'm tending to his wounds as he recoups on the bench, Because he gave away the house Because he gave away the house, you know, and he's probably thinking the woman don't even use it. I brought her here so she'd have a nice workplace. Now she's not even here.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so I've been informed that we're keeping mama and at least at least one one at least one, and now we're putting up a brand new fence. We've been meeting with swiss valley fence and uh, we'll be putting up a fence in the next few weeks to uh make sure that all the kittens are like safe and sound.
Speaker 1:That's good. Like white vinyl. Do you know?
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That would be nice yeah. Nice touch on the house, oh yeah, Nice touch. Nice touch on your wallet too, I'm sure. Absolutely.
Speaker 4:And one more thing to mow around.
Speaker 3:Right and weeding Weeding. You put one of them slatted up, or this way, this way, vertical up, or this way, this way, vertical, vertical horizontal the solid yeah
Speaker 4:yeah, and of course she, you know, explained to the guy. Now he tried to explain to her.
Speaker 3:There has to be like a two or three inch gap at the bottom you know, because, yeah, with the ground and put chicken, put chicken wire there, and she, she's already caught.
Speaker 4:Look, I'm doing this because of cats. That fence has got to be close to the ground so they can't crawl under it.
Speaker 5:Yeah, wait till you get the reading all around.
Speaker 2:that I would love to see the look on the guy's face.
Speaker 5:So I don't have to use their electric collars anymore.
Speaker 4:They'll be throwing cats over the fence. We'll just see our car pull up.
Speaker 2:They'll be throwing cats over the fence. We'll just see our car pull up.
Speaker 4:One of my patients in Newcomerstown.
Speaker 2:the house next to them has a really nice gray vinyl fence. Oh, it's very nice. Is it like a charcoal gray?
Speaker 4:I don't know if we can get gray or not.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's probably, it's very nice, I really like it.
Speaker 5:Now we put that white up halfway around. We were going to go all the way around and I had this why are you going to spend that much money putting it in the backyard? Who sees it in the backyard now? I'm looking at like, why didn't you finish it? He's like um, I think you said not to waste the money he's just trying to listen for once, listen he, he's been really good because we've had major major water issues.
Speaker 1:Oh no.
Speaker 5:So the bathtub was leaking, or the plumbing to it, and there's no way to get to it.
Speaker 1:Is it in a crawl space?
Speaker 5:No, it was something with the shower adapter and whatever. But when they put that new bathroom in that bathtub shower piece is all one and they built it so you couldn't get to it and Jeremy's like I don't know why they wouldn't do it. I said I'll tell you why, because they were older like us and when they fixed it we're not going to have to worry about it.
Speaker 1:Exactly Somebody else is going to have to worry about it. Yeah, they're like, it looks nice, but we're not going to have to worry about it.
Speaker 5:So he ended up having to cut a hole in it to get to it. Got it fixed and then he broke something, so then it was leaking again. I'm having a meltdown because I can't get my hot bath. I soak in the tub for an hour. I can hold on. I said here, get this fixed. I'm coming to your bathroom Door's open. So I get home and he's like the water's shut off, it's still leaking. I'm like, okay, I put a bucket down there, so just get your tub filled, and then holler and I'll shut it off. He spoiled me and allowed the pipes to leak so I could still fill my tub.
Speaker 5:That's nice, that's nice but it is fixed now. But what a mess, and I don't want to remodel a bathroom no, no, we really need to get.
Speaker 1:We only have you know, I wish I knew a plumber to put another bathroom. We need, yeah, and we have room possibly for the bathroom upstairs. The only thing is is where it would be. Is the plumbing like it would have to go through the dining room wall, like something outrageous. You know what I mean and like it, yeah, we can do it. It's just going to be a disaster, like when we I don't know, and and it's not our forever home, so maybe, maybe, we'll just stick it out until that time comes.
Speaker 2:I grew up with one bathroom with five of us. Yeah, yeah, yeah you'll be fine.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I. He was like, well, y'all did, we ought to just get you one of them walk-in tubs. He said. Eventually he's like you're not gonna be able to get down in the tub, you know, when you get older, right. And he's like if we're gonna remodel it, we might as well do it. And I'm like I said that's for old people. The more I think about it I'm thinking, oh, it's just like your little hot tub right there in the bathroom and you get the you can get this power jets in that, oh yeah, and those, oh yeah.
Speaker 5:It'd be like a indoor jacuzzi or indoor hot tub, but if you check the price on those, it's not something we're going to do this year. I can tell you that.
Speaker 2:Anywhere from $5,000 to $12,000, whatever you want to spend.
Speaker 1:Well, didn't Michael say it's also like when people sell a home like people, like a down, not a downgrade, but like they don't.
Speaker 5:Most people.
Speaker 1:They're like oh yeah.
Speaker 5:My son, unless they are.
Speaker 1:If you do that, I'll never be able to sell that house.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll be dead I don't care like you're still getting money of some sort from it or not. Yes, yes, I'll be dead. It'll be your problem. You'll have to spend your money to remodel the bathroom before you sell yeah oh, darn, just don't put 30 grand in it. Yeah, yeah, really.
Speaker 1:I heard someone I think I heard on the radio today. Someone had, like, when he was, you know, nearing the end of life, he was figuring out his plans and stuff for like the funeral and everything, and I guess he had gotten like a casket that was like covered in stickers and then, because he wanted everyone to laugh like and you know like, have a good time while he's like I don't want them to just be crying all day and and I think they ended up putting something on the um on the coffin that it was just like his nickname or something. I'm like that was kind of smart. Like I've never really heard of someone doing that.
Speaker 2:My father-in-law wanted tomato plants Really Instead of flowers, and you know, guybs found tomato plants. It would not have been the season for tomato plants.
Speaker 1:Oh my.
Speaker 2:They got tomato plants. That's really neat For him.
Speaker 1:That's cool, uh-huh.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I like that We've had a wild night from Easter egg hunt, let's serve it. Tomato plants Tomato plants At the funeral home.
Speaker 2:At the funeral home Kittens, kittens Electric fences.
Speaker 1:We hit all the toppings. Right, yeah, we did, we sure did, and some we always do though.
Speaker 5:Yes, I was going to say what's any different from tonight. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Last night or the night before, yeah, time before, week before, months before, year before.
Speaker 4:Well, our podcast should show up in every category. It really should, yeah.
Speaker 5:We just have to have that Margie moment every time.
Speaker 4:Yeah, oh, it's been a moment.
Speaker 5:Are you having to bottle feed these kids?
Speaker 4:No, Mama's doing a great job. Yeah, she's been in the box with them the entire time.
Speaker 5:Are they inside or outside?
Speaker 4:They're in our downstairs bathroom. Yep, it was the only place in the house I could get some peace.
Speaker 1:Now you can, now you can, I felt that the Cooper is banging on the door because he thinks I'm brushing my teeth. I'm like I'm peeing. Let me go. You'll never have a moment alone in the bathroom again, and that's why I need another bathroom.
Speaker 4:So yeah, they're growing, they're doing good.
Speaker 5:He will find you.
Speaker 1:Oh, I know it will only be a matter of.
Speaker 4:I remember doing that to our mom.
Speaker 2:Oh Us as kids.
Speaker 4:You know the terrible thing. What we would do is we would wait until she'd go in there to get her bath and we would knock on the door and be like Mom, can we have our snack? And she'd be like, well, wait till we get out, and then, uh, we'd go get a snack. So then, when she came out, we got another she's like where's? All my snacks going I don't know if she ever caught on.
Speaker 3:She probably had to double up. She probably, she probably figured it out when she figured hey these snacks should last long. You know I'll double up on them next time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she knew.
Speaker 5:But my dad always worked midnight so I always knew about 12, 31 o'clock. He was deep asleep.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 5:Whatever I wanted to do, that I would question whether he was going to let me do it. That was the time to ask him, because he'd tell me I could do it.
Speaker 3:He wanted to go to sleep.
Speaker 1:Chase said the one night I was like in there in the bathroom and banging on the you know Cooper's banging on the door. And then he said he saw him like, get down and look under the door oh my gosh, my kids did door.
Speaker 2:oh my gosh, my kids did that. Yeah, my kids did that as well.
Speaker 4:Yeah, our cats do that I got one cat. When I'm in there he wants to be in there and our our upstairs bathroom it the the door warps so it won't shut all the way, depending on what time of the year it is. So and he has this thing where he'll get in and he he'll head, butt the door until he gets in and it sounds like a human being coming into the door when he finally gets it open and once he gets in there, you'll see him shaking his head.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you don't care, he's getting in there then as soon as he gets in, then he wants out.
Speaker 5:So just sounds like a kid that's what your kid would.
Speaker 4:Yeah, if he actually got in there with you, then then he wants out.
Speaker 5:I had that little black cat scooby and she'd get her little paws on the door and you see this little black, and she'd eventually get it open really yeah she was cats like chase's uh that's what I was just about to
Speaker 1:say chase said his stepdad's one of his favorite saying is everyone's gonna have a dog or everyone's gonna have a kid. Like if they show up to a job and a dog's barking, he's like everyone's gonna have a dog. Well, now chase starts to say it about a kid. I'm like's like everyone's gonna have a dog. Well, now chase starts to say it about a kid. I'm like talking about cooper, you know, like no one else's kid, yeah oh honey, you're fun to just.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, it's fun, it is fun. He's already our neighbor kid like um, I don't know, they're probably four and six, I think there's two girls and they're on their bikes, you know, going around the church and he's like talking about the bike, wanting to get on the bike already like oh man does that little church there still have service. They do yeah they only have services on Sundays, okay, um, yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't thought about that church at all, yeah um, it's always like the same cars and stuff there. But like I know I see people mowing there every now and then, but there's it's always the same guy and I don't even think he goes there. He's, I see him mowing some other places. Um, but yeah, they my neighbor used to always be able to park there like during the like all week, and not I shouldn't, because their parking lot's pretty big for how small the church is, so they would normally just park on like the one side facing their house compared to the church. But they told me recently that they, you know, asked him just to not park there on the weekends. Now. So I'm like I wonder, I don't know if it's new, you know if it's new management or anything?
Speaker 1:a new pastor? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4:Yeah yeah, when I was a kid, my friend's grandma lived, I think, on your street and, uh, we would um, I think it's the. There was a field there beside the funeral home, but now they put that pool barn there.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 4:Well, when we were kids, we would go in that field and we would play home run derby.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 4:And we would hit the baseballs across Water Street towards the other houses on the other side. Oh, and we would try to. There's the one house that's got the balcony.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah we would try to get.
Speaker 4:there's the one house that's got the balcony. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we would try to get the baseball into the balcony. Don't ask me how we never got in trouble.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but we did Were you ever successful.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Huh, did you have the nerve to go back and ask for your ball back.
Speaker 4:No, we probably took off running at that point.
Speaker 2:We finally did it, we did it.
Speaker 4:yeah, out of here you know slamming baseballs across water street. Sometimes it was tennis balls. We used tennis balls too, you know well, they fly a lot better yeah, yeah, they do that was yeah, they were a lot more fun. But yeah, I don't know stuff we used to do, but I always remember that church sitting there, yes, you know, and uh, even then I always wondered is that you?
Speaker 1:know people actually go to which church is it?
Speaker 4:it's a little white church I think it's 11th street no, it's a church of christ.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um back in. That's all it says, though, like it says church of christ, and then it has like a bulletin board that it sits on it's.
Speaker 2:It sits on the right hand side, doesn't it?
Speaker 1:uh, if you're going down parish street, since parish is a one way, it would be on the left side but, like if you're going down Parrish Street, since Parrish is a one-way, it would be on the left side, but like if you're going into the main entrance of that cemetery Union Cemetery it's on the corner of 7th and Parrish, like to your left, really, really, really small. But yeah, now that I think of it, I'm trying to think if I saw any, because there's a couple of familiar faces that I see every sunday leaving, and or if someone's picking up sticks, like through throughout the week there's typically one lady that'll sometimes go there, but I don't think I saw any of them here for the london service. So, yeah, well, I think we covered it all close it up before we get on another one we'll try.
Speaker 1:I'm going to try letter.
Speaker 4:B.
Speaker 1:I think it is. I hit the button. Okay, here we go. That's not it. Hold on. Maybe it's C. Hold on. Do we have another margie minute? All right, I'm just gonna cut it all right.
Speaker 1:Dear heavenly father lord, I just thank you for this time that we had tonight, lord, um I thank you for uh us just you know being able to go with the flow and being able to talk about topics that we had no idea we'd even be talking about. I thank you that we can have this opportunity to get together and, you know, just share what's on our mind and, at the end of the day, just plant those seeds. I pray for safe travels and pray this all in your name, amen.
Speaker 3:Amen.
