Sunday Worship

I'm sure everything went well in Clarksville at the main campus and at the FLC. I'm glad our church has a high view of worship.

Cheryl and I attended Northside Baptist Church here in Indianapolis. It's probably the largest Southern Baptist Church in the city - if not the state. But large churches in the North are not the size of large churches in the South. They had an 8:00 service for their youth as a send off to camp. They had 100 youth going to camp. They have a cool deal. A youth can invite an unsaved friend to go to camp with them and they get to go free. They have several youth saved every year at camp.

The music was great. They sang some cool upbeat arrangements of some hymns as well as some choruses. They had a great brass section too - a couple of trumpets, some bones and some saxaphones... and one lone violin. And then of course drums, congas, a bass and keybaords.

One of the men in the running for president of the SBC spoke. Hmmm, I guess I should remember his name.

Here's a church downtown. (not the one we went to this morning) They were doing some sort of photo shoot. We decided this wasn't a real wedding party. There wasn't a mother hovering around making sure everything was like she thought it should be, the bride and groom didn't seem interested in each other and the bridesmaids and groomsmen were all too pretty to be someone's friends.

A Fun Concert

Cheryl had to work this morning. You may already know that she is one of the recruiters at the corporate offices of LifeWay. She had to hire checkers and courtesy clerks for the Southern Baptist Convention and today she had to make sure they showed up and that they could clock in and know how to run a cash register or put a book in a LifeWay bag and to say, "thank you, come again" or something like that. Actually, other people do the training. She just makes sure the managers have the people they need.

While she was working I went to a concert at the Artsgarden in the Circle Centre Mall, downtown, Indianapolis. It's a cool mall and a cool "art" place. There are several hotels and a mall and other things all connected with "sky walks" over the streets. The Artsgarden is above the street. This is a picture of it from below.

The concert was by the "Athenaeum Pops Orchestra" http://www.athenaeumorchestra.org/ under the direction of Lee Jones. It was very good. It was a Leroy Anderson Centennial Concert.

You would probably recognize some of the music they played - like "Syncopated Clock" and "Typewriter".

Southern Baptist Convention

My lovely wife and I are in Indianapolis. We left after VBS today. I have a video to upload later. I don't have my camera with me at the moment. We're in the lobby of our hotel. The camera is sevgeral floors up from here and I haven't had a chance to download the pictures and the video from today because we've been driving.

I had planned on giving exciting updates from the Southern Baptist Convention this coming week, but the only place for WiFi is in the lobby. I can get internet in my room for $20 a day. You read that right - $20 a day for internet!!!

But I'll still check in with exciting commentary and news.

If you need to e-mail me you might send it to my home address as the church connection has been out since late Thursday and I still can't connect to it - so I assume it is still down.