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February 27, 2012

God’s Peace be with you all.

1 Kings 1:43-48  ⁴³ Jonathan answered Adonijah, "No, for our lord King David has made Solomon king;  ⁴⁴ the king has sent with him the priest Zadok, the prophet Nathan, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they had him ride on the king's mule;  ⁴⁵ the priest Zadok and the prophet Nathan have anointed him king at Gihon; and they have gone up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that you heard.  ⁴⁶ Solomon now sits on the royal throne.  ⁴⁷ Moreover the king's servants came to congratulate our lord King David, saying, 'May God make the name of Solomon more famous than yours, and make his throne greater than your throne.' The king bowed in worship on the bed    ⁴⁸ and went on to pray thus, 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who today has granted one of my offspring to sit on my throne and permitted me to witness it.'"

I chose the text above for our weekly devotional because of one word:  congratulate.  That word only appears in the Bible 4 times, with the above text being perhaps the best example of its use.  I choose this text based on that word because I wanted to congratulate all of you.  Yesterday was an outstanding Sunday.  It was a fantastic way to end February and to begin Lent.  Let me share a few of the details about yesterday:

•  I had 12 people in the Sunday School class that I teach.  This is the most I have ever had. 
• There were 8 children in Children’s Sunday School, along with 4 adult teachers/helpers.  This was the most we have had in that class as well.
• We had an amazing crowd for worship.  There were 67 people present, 21 were teenagers or younger.  We had about 10 of our regular attendees that were absent yesterday for various reasons, but had 3 families with us that are repeat visitors and 1 family that were charter members of the congregation.
•  Total giving for February was over $7000.  (January giving was over $8000, and it had 5 Sundays).  This is a fantastic way to start the New Year in terms of financial stewardship.  It is the best start we have ever had. 

So where do we go?  Well, the next big thing we have coming up is Homecoming on March 18 (We will have a church clean up day on March 10).  I hope that we can continue this trend of great attendance/giving through this next month and perhaps even top yesterday in terms of numbers.  When I left church yesterday, there was a sense of joy simply because of all the good things that happened.  Let’s keep it up!

In our prayers this week: Ann, Daniel, Scott S., Mike C., Brent S., Barbara (Pat’s sister), Charles, and Christine (Andrea’s friend)