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| Dewey | Jun 15 2012, 06:25 PM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Some of my Sunday School kids and a couple of the teachers drove up into the city today, as a field trip to visit several very different Presbyterian churches - Here, ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() and just a couple miles away, here (my home church), ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() and just a mile or so away, here: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (this last one is a brain teaser: if you know a little bit about Christian history, just by looking at this picture you should know the name of this particular church) It was just a fun outing to let the kids experience some of the breadth of expression of the faith, to show them ways that our faith tradition has been expressed architecturally and in different physical ways of worship - but showing them at each stop along the way an Order of Worship for each of the churches, and that with only a few very minor tweaks, what we do in our congregation is what these people are doing every Sunday in their congregations. I appreciated that as the pastor at the last stop (who was actually the instructor who taught me how to administer the sacraments in my CLP training, which took place at that third location) was showing the kids the artistic and symbolic significance of their Communionware, she started to say some of the preface to the words of institution of the Lord's Supper, "...and they shall come from north and south, and east and west, to sit at Table with the Lord in the Kingdom of Heaven..." and the kid's got a surprised look on their faces like, "hey, that's the same thing Pastor Dewey always says!" - which, of course, was an important part of the point to the whole trip; our unity even within our really wide denominational diversity. Even the fact that this last pastor was a female was a good part of expressing that diversity; even though we Presbys have had female ministers since the mid 1950s, I'm not sure the kids had ever met one before, and Phyllis was really great with them. After touring the churches, we all went to lunch at a nearby Japanese steakhouse, and then cruised through a Cokesbury Christian bookstore just a few doors away. The kids had paid for the excursion by collecting aluminum cans and taking them to the local recycling center, which easily paid for the gas, the lunch, and a few trinkets at the bookstore. After all that, the kids headed back home, an hour or so to the south of town. It was a fun field trip, for kids and adults alike. A couple days ago, a friend had asked if I wanted to go out for a burger and a beer this evening. He's been through a really awful divorce, lost custody of his kid, lost pretty much everything - he's had a tough way to go lately, and I knew that he must have needed a shoulder to lean on and to vent to someone, as we've done a number of times in the past, so I agreed, even though I already had the kids' trip on my calendar and was scheduled to work at the hospital overnight. But after the field trip, I was feeling a little bushed and wanted to just get some sleep before going in to work. I didn't want to tell my friend that he didn't rate higher than a nap, so I texted him and told him that we'd have to reschedule - a chaplain at the hospital had called in sick, and I got called in early this evening. That sounded a little nicer. Then I flopped on the bed and fell into a pretty good, solid sleep. At about 7:15, I was awakened by the phone ringing next to my head. It was the Pastoral Care office at the hospital. The chaplain on call had called in sick, and they wanted me to come in early to fill in for her. ![]() |
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| brenda | Jun 16 2012, 09:46 AM Post #2 |
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Love those first pics, Dewey. What lovely buildings! As for the nap, it looks like you were forecasting.
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| ivorythumper | Jun 16 2012, 09:56 AM Post #3 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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St Andrews? |
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| Dewey | Jun 16 2012, 10:26 AM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Very good! - It's St. Andrew, singular, not possessive. He's about the only saint that Presbyterian churches are ever named for, he being the patron saint of Scotland, and almost all of Presbyterianism originally coming the States by way of Scottish immigrants. Even after John Knox returned form his association with Calvin and brought the Reformed tradition to Scotland, and after the newly-coined "Presbyterian" church became the official church of Scotland, special respect was still given to St. Andrew. In fact, you can see a lot of Scottish influence in the tartan-pattern banners hanging in the "barn church." It's very common in more traditional Presbyterian churches to have an entry procession on Reformation Sunday (the last Sunday in October) featuring bagpipes and kilted bagpipers, even if there isn't a single person in the congregation with a drop of Scottish blood. |
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| Dewey | Jun 16 2012, 10:33 AM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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It's just part of the whole concept of "The Psychic Chaplain," the subject of a few running jokes at the hospital. Examples: "Hi Mr. Jones, I'm Chaplain Smith, the Psychic Chaplain, I'm here for the Code Blue." "What Code Blue? I'm the only patient in this room, and there's no - " "Wait for it... wait for it..." or: "Hi Mr. Jones, I'm Chaplain Smith, the Psychic Chaplain, I'm here for the Code Blue." "What Code Blue? And who's Mr. Jones? I'm Mr. Anderson." "Oh, wait a minute... this is room 7266, I was looking for room 7268. Well all right then, never mind.... ...see you tomorrow.
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| Frank_W | Jun 18 2012, 05:25 AM Post #6 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Nice churches! I love this:![]() It looks really warm and inviting... |
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Nice churches! I love this:
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