Easter Means Spring Flowers

This was a busy and wonderful weekend. Friday night we showed The Passion of the Christ at our building. We did not have many come, but that movie is a graphically powerful experience for anyone who watches it.

Saturday we did our annual Eastside picnic and Easter egg hunt. It's always a fun event... especially for the kids. We usually do this event at a picnic area at Black Diamond Mines, however, because of all the rain we've had recently, we held it at the fellowship hall this year. Probably not as many folks as usual, but picnic lunches were still eaten, eggs were hidden and found, and all who were there had fun.

After the picnic we set up the foyer in the main building for the"breakfast fellowship" we had this morning during class time. Doug and Victoria were there also, decorating the auditorium, so Virginia and I helped out and had a good visit with them.

Saturday brought a break in the rain, so we got a good look at our California wild flower patch. The poppies are really in bloom right now, and a few other flowers are showing up too. Here are some pics from Saturday.

























































Today our Easter service was truly amazing. Lots of people... all focused on why we were there... great singing... Jarrod was "on"... the videos we used were powerful... and God, in his way, made the whole morning more marvelous than the sum of all the parts. Thank you, Lord.

Tomorrow I fly to Boston to spend a week with Jen, Fok, and Kaleb... maybe I should say with Kaleb and his parents. :-) It's Kaleb's spring break, so we should have some fun. Don't know if I'll have time to blog, but I'll catch up later if I don't. Blessings...