Sunday, November 30, 2014

A Beachy Day

Sunday School for adults at NMIUMC was an adult Bible study booklet we read and then discussed.  The class meets for 1 ½ hours, not 45 minutes, 30 minutes before the children’s class because they like to have time for more discussion.
  

 
Worship was at 10:30 till about noon, much like our Hope Church worship was.  And the casualness of the worship center was reminiscent of Hope as well.  A snack and coffee table was set up at the back of the worship center from 9am on, and it was manned by Andy.  Andy is a Korean War  US Navy veteran and a long time civilian vet of the Cape Canaveral base.  He’s seen most every record setting flight go up since 1959.

And it was Andy who awarded us each a METHODIST MUGGING as guests of the church.  We kept one mug and returned the other to Andy after the service to give another.  We just don’t have space for extra anything in the coach!










While the style of the service here is very casual its form is blended.  We enjoyed hymns and praise music well spaced to make the service flow.  In fact, the keyboardist was an accomplished local stage vocalist so we were blessed with a solo from him half way through the service.




Today was a fifth Sunday of the month and on these four Sundays Children’s Church is moved to an art and craft/missions table under a dining canopy at the rear of the worship center so families can be closer together. The kids are involved in the service that way.  They call it Family Sunday.



Pastor Joel was dressed for this FIRST Advent service by one of the children and the boy chose tinsel garland for his theme.  And the theme was, ‘Standing out, not blending in, to the culture”.  I’d say Joel and his wardrobe consultant succeeded.

The service ended with another memory of Hope Church. Prayer warriors were called forward and folk were invited to come forward for personal prayer time.  One young lady did. You never know the need unless you make an opportunity for it to be met.











We learned that the live nativity dates on the church road sign were incorrect.  It happens Dec 13-14, not tomorrow night.  But we hope to join the Wednesday night Bible Study at 6pm when they meet this week.


We had a nice lunch at home and headed out to Cocoa Beach’s Mercury 3 - Sheppard Park for some ocean reading time.  Each beach park in Cocoa is named for one of the Mercury Program astronauts of the 1960’s. Alan was the first US astronaut to ever fly.





On the beach an air force kite caught my attention till a beach neighbor of ours began to feed the gulls.  Dangerous business feeding gulls at the beach.  Just ask Mona about it some time.


We scoped out a place suggested to us this morning by John for getting the best view of the Thursday launch from Cape Canaveral.  As of this evening all lights are green for the Orion takeoff at 7:05 am.

Should be exciting.


-Ken

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