Pastor Brian...I Really Was at Church!

It's rather unlike me to miss my own church service. I suppose it's something I learned growing up - you just plan your life around being home for church on the weekends. But I promise that even though I wasn't in my standard pew, I really was in church on Sunday!

As you can see, the Mennonite church is under construction, so they meet in a school in a nearby town. But since this was a special weekend, there was a community church service in a tent in the park. So that was the church I attended.

This is Jeff - praying or welcoming or something...

All the graduates were invited to attend and were recognized.


The members of the Ministerial Alliance prayed over the graduates.

And Jeff sang a song! :)
I have to say that it was during church that I first realized just how overrun with media this whole town had become. We sang some songs and one of them got to me (it ALWAYS gets to me when I sing it) and I had a small tear or six. And a bit later, I was singing another song with my eyes closed, and I kept seeing a flash. After church, a reporter stopped to ask me my name, because he'd taken some pictures. Hopefully he took them while I was singing and not while I was bawling!