For Wilshire Baptist Church
Is a gift really a gift if the recipient doesn’t know they’ve been given the gift?
That’s the question on my mind this Thanksgiving week. The holiday is intended to be an occasion to give thanks for the good things we have received in life. Most certainly it is a time to give thanks to God for those things that come most definitely from God. But we also give thanks for the people in our lives who have blessed us in certain ways.
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So, it’s no big secret now that our pastor search committee at Wilshire Baptist Church has chosen the person they believe is the best possible candidate to lead our congregation into the future. But the reveal has yet to happen and so we must wait a little longer.
No doubt the feelings of wondering and wishing that many of us have experienced over these past months have intensified. Some will be listening and watching for hints in the words and the body language of committee members in these days before the name is officially announced.
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At a recent deacons meeting at Wilshire, Debbie Meripolski, our deacon chair, was speaking from behind a black metal music stand that had been provided as a podium when she noticed it slowly sinking. She was surprised by that, but I wasn’t. I interrupted her briefly and knelt on the ground next to the stand to clamp a large metal binder clip right above where the silver piston meets the black cylinder. Fixed.
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