The staff chaplain here at BGEA spoke on Mark 14:50 this morning. Specifically on the phrase ...and they all left him and fled.
Certainly a dark time in the events leading up to the cross, but one that God knew about beforehand. He knew that his closest friends would desert Jesus at the time of his greatest need, but Jesus went to the cross anyway. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. God knew in advance what we would (and would not) do, and he still sent Christ do die anyway.
When you really think about it, you have to admit: it really is Amazing Grace.
After prayer time, our volunteer coordinator said that Colton Dixon would be in concert here at the Cove on Monday evening. Would we be interested?
Sure, sign us up!
So next week is filling fast. Monday we will be seeing Colton Dixon, Tuesday we’re scheduled to hear Neal Anderson speak along with having dinner provided by the Cove, Wednesday we will have a SOWERs game night, and Thursday we will be starting to head for home. I’m sure it will go quickly.
Today for me it was back at the chapel to replace more railing boards. When we arrived at the Chapel, it was a beehive of activity, with the tiny circle drive packed with trucks and trailers, and a dozen or more people moving equipment and stringing cables. Will Graham will be giving a Good Friday address from the chapel with Brandon Heath as a special guest, and today they were setting up for the event. They were there when we got there, they were still working on it when we left at 3pm. I found it amazing just how much was needed to support an event like this and it was interesting watching everything happen as we worked on the deck.
We replaced a few more railing boards and did a lot of painting. I managed to cut a 12 foot two-by-six incorrectly (measure once, cut twice), and correcting it would have made it too short. We had pre-painted one side of the board as one side can’t be painted once mounted and the pre-painted side was on the wrong side. So I had Mike paint the other side and I re-did a bevel cut and ended up with a quarter inch of material left over once the board fit.
I had to do a second board just like the first and I made exactly the same mistake again. Sometimes I amaze myself.
Yours truly, filling nail holes
Once again, since the maintenance crew knocked off at 2:30 today, we did, too.
Deb and Bonnie rolled some more silverware today and put together some programs in the Administration Building.
This evening was a potluck for the SOWERs and it was really nice to have the break room in the maintenance building available for our use. We set up on the long table in the middle of the room and had a wonderful meal together. Deb made a broccoli-chicken-rice dish in the Instant Pot. We don’t have an oven in the RV so the Instant Pot has been in use for a few meals. Mike and Bonnie brought a whole ham (on sale at Aldi in Asheville), so we had a nice ham dinner a couple days early for Easter.
After dinner we played games for a while and then had dessert. We had a nice time of conversation with these new friends. Steve and Brenda, our group leaders, treated us to a gift of chocolates and Easter goodies.
Both of the other couples are full-timers, with Mike and Bonnie having done at least 55 projects so far, so they have a lot of collective wisdom. They consider the time here at the Cove as somewhat of a respite, as this is more of a “high-end” project, with the schedules more relaxed, good availability of supplies, tools, and equipment, a prime location, and even very good WiFi. Other projects may not have supplies immediately available, you may have to bring your own tools, and they may not have a half hour of wonderful devotions every morning.
Here, not only is every imaginable tool available, we are even assigned our own runabout to drive. It may not be the nice diesel Kubota that the maintenance guys drive, but it gets us to the chapel and back.
The standard maintenance vehicle
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