Monday Spot (23 October 2006)
This week saw the long overdue KAOS prizegiving on Sunday morning. This is normally held much earlier in the year but, for some reason, not this year.
Tracy Wood - KAOS Leader
Tracy led the Sunday morning meeting which included the presentation of prizes to the young people. The young people also provided items, readings and prayers
Presentation of a prize
‘For the beauty of the earth’ (John Rutter)
The Mike Woodhouse prize for attendance
Using scripture from 1 Samuel 16:6-12 Tracy took as her theme ’small is big’ and used people form the congregation to illustrate how we can be large when compared to some and small when compared to others. ‘We are amazing. We DO matter! God has a purpose for each one of us. Inconspicuous does not mean insignificant’. Are you ready to do great things for God? Will He say of you, ‘Rise and anoint him, he is the one’.
Major Kathy
Major Kathy led our evening meeting beginning a short series entitled ‘Building the people of God’. She used scripture from 1 Peter 2:4-11 (Living Stones) and said that ordinarily stone is inanimate and incapable of action. The living stones, however, are the community of our church. We are living stones. ‘The word of the Lord stands for ever’.
The Band contributed ‘For you’ featuring the words of Song No 273 in The Salvation Army Song Book and the Songsters brought us ‘Close to me’. Other songs included Nos 809, 613, 786 and 605 from The Salvation Army Song Book.
Kneeling in penitance (Song 605)
Finally a humourous remark from Kathy’s sermon (entirely our of context, of course). ‘The trouble with a living sacrifice is that it tends to crawl off the altar’. Humourous, but food for thought.
Editor’s note: Just south of the town of Kailua-Kona, on Hawaii’s Big Island lies a beautiful beach side church which goes under the name of ‘Living Stones’. The picture below shows the cross set up in the grounds with the blue Pacific Ocean behind it.
The stones in the picture are indeed living, having been ‘dumped’ there by volcanic action many years ago. In the last two weeks these stones have lived again due to an earthquake (exceeding 6 on the Richter scale) which has affected the whole of the western side of Hawaii. Literally God can move mountains, even those under the sea. May He make your stones live again if they have been dormant. See you next week and don’t forget to put the clocks back next Saturday night.