Our church family will be celebrating another anniversary in July. Traditionally, the anniversary has been celebrated on the second Sunday of July. We had such a great turn out last year that we wanted to stay with the successful game plan. Our church Fellowship Hall is really too small to seat 300 people. So, we rented the Edisto Shelter at the James Island County Park. It will seat 300 inside, plus about 10 picnic tables under the oak trees. We will do a cookout providing all the hamburgers, hotdogs and all the fixin’s. You are welcomed to bring a dessert if you would like. If someone happened to bring a macaroni and cheese, they would need to see me so I could take special care of it! Oh, back to the desserts. It would help if you could pre-slice your dessert since we will not be at the JIBC Kitchen with all our serving wares. Believe me, anyway you bring a great dessert will be fine. Plan to dress for the park on that Sunday. We will leave right after worship. By the way, we are planning to celebrate with Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.
So, a few things that will be different at this year’s picnic. We will fix our plates outside the shelter under the tents and then proceed inside for seating. That way we increase the number of seats in the air conditioned inside! We have some great prizes to be drawn but you do have to be present to win. Marie Smith has been working on the door prizes and she always comes up with great prizes. Rumor has it there are two $75 gift certificates to the View Salon! So far I think she has seven adult prizes and three for children. We plan to have live music featuring our talented musicians. Sounds like it is going to be a great day at the park.
This past week was a great example of why I so love JIBC. We had a great Vacation Bible School with volunteers that were high energy and highly committed to serving children. We collected over 100 jars of jelly and gave over $1,200 for James Island Outreach. What a great way to say welcome to the new Director at JIO, Scott Graule. We want him to know JIBC is on board with the mission. By the way, I can’t wait for you to hear some of the new changes in the outreach ministries. The VBS children also collected and made dozens of hygiene kits for the homeless.
We also had a Life Celebration/Funeral service for our dear friend Jenny Greenhalgh. Our praise band played three different times Sunday and all three brought Him glory. Our Kitchen Krew fed over 100 people. Our security team and prayer teams did their job and I want to thank them for a job well done. Thank you for all you do as a church family to make His love known. You were able to show, perhaps over 100 people, what a good and beautiful God looks like. I am honored to be your pastor.
See you Sunday, good Lord willing,
Pastor Tom
