2021 Home Photo Challenge 1-16-21

The Home Photo Challenge was fun for me last year. Since I do not think much is going to be changing for me in the way of travel this year, I am going to continue the challenge for myself into 2021. This year I am going to add a little twist. I will give a brief description of each photo I take and write a Haiku to go along with it.

IF YOU WANT TO JOIN IN THE FUN.JUST TAKE A PHOTO IN OR AROUND YOUR HOME AND WRITE YOUR OWN BLOG AND POST THE LINK IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW IT.

We awoke to the fall of heavy snish . That’s snow mixed with rain mixed with slush.

It is snishing out.

Rain, snow, slush from the night sky

Falling into life.

CFFC: Urban Erosion

I am jumping in on this week’s FUN FOTO CHALLENGE.

One of this year’s blogging goals for me is to really focus on building community, and as Cee said, “This challenge both new and archived photos are allowed.  The main purpose of this challenge is to create community and get to know each other through photography.”

Cee and I live at opposite ends of the country, but like her I live in a pretty small community. This is Central Street in my home town.

That green and white building in the background used to be my family’s restaurant. We sold it after my father died back in 1991. It has been empty for going on a decade now.

This is the house where I grew up and now live. We call it The Vicarage.

That is the steeple of my grandparents’ church…the first church where I youth pastored back in 1992-1995.

2021 At the Vicarage Week #2

Jan. 8th- Today we took ‘Lella home and she got to meet her sister Abigail!

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The Franklin family is once again reunited!!!

James was so excited to have ‘Lella home he met us half way down the stairs. What a great dad he is!

Jan. 9th- ‘Lella no sooner got home than the Vicarage got busy with ministry work. Saturday was a full day of answering e-mails and Facebooks and getting my powerpoint ready for Sunday morning sermon. I will be preaching a message entitled “Manifest the Mission”.

Jan. 10th- Preaching day. I had forgotten how preaching tuckers me out. It’s time for my Pentecostal nap.

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Jan. 11th- Today I did a video on what it means to do life together with other people. Then I took my friend Grace to the bank, the grocery store and the pharmacy.

You can find the video and comments HERE.

Jan. 12th- Today Wendy our church receptionist and I went to help Grace again. Today we were working through some stacks of old mail that were causing some consternation in Grace’s life. It’s not hard to do life together. Sometimes it just takes time and a couple of garbage bags.

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Later in the afternoon I went to practice music with Patrick a member of our worship team.

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Jan. 13th- It always amazes me how much ministry can dispell an otherwise quiet life. Needs arise and opportunities abound. It is never a question of what to do. More often it is a question of what not to do. Tonight I taught The Wall Prayer meeting. I used the passage from Ephesians Chapter 4: 1-15.

You can find the video HERE

Jan. 14th- Music lessons today and worship theory. I began looking into Green Energy sources today. Had a conversation with a company called Energy something or other. They said our roof is not suitable for panels. I will get a second opinion, but something tells me they are probably right….Maybe we should look at wind power.

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2021 Home Photo Challenge 1-15-21

The Home Photo Challenge was fun for me last year. Since I do not think much is going to be changing for me in the way of travel this year, I am going to continue the challenge for myself into 2021. This year I am going to add a little twist. I will give a brief description of each photo I take and write a Haiku to go along with it.

IF YOU WANT TO JOIN IN THE FUN.JUST TAKE A PHOTO IN OR AROUND YOUR HOME AND WRITE YOUR OWN BLOG AND POST THE LINK IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW IT.

It’s antique hydrangea does not give Up its flowers until the new growth comes.

What was comes again

In new form sporting old clothes.

What was can then sleep.

2021 Home Photo Challenge 1-14-21

The Home Photo Challenge was fun for me last year. Since I do not think much is going to be changing for me in the way of travel this year, I am going to continue the challenge for myself into 2021. This year I am going to add a little twist. I will give a brief description of each photo I take and write a Haiku to go along with it.

IF YOU WANT TO JOIN IN THE FUN.JUST TAKE A PHOTO IN OR AROUND YOUR HOME AND WRITE YOUR OWN BLOG AND POST THE LINK IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW IT.

A whole world’s in a

Drop of rain. I’m wondering

What’s inside of me.

The Discovery Of Gifts

On this, day 5 of our 21 days of fasting and prayer we are praying into the discovery of our God given gifts.

HERE ARE SOME THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR GOD GIVEN GIFTS.

  1. THEY HAVE MNORE TO DO WITH YOUR PERSONALITY THAN YOUR TALENTS.
  2. THEY ARE YOUR MOTIVATIONS FROM WHICH YOU UNDERSTAND AND INTERACT WITH THE WORLD.
  3. YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN A GIFT BY GOD WHETHER YOU BELIVE IN HIM OR NOT.
  4. YOU USE THAT GIFT EVERYDAY WHETHER YOU BELIVE IN HIM OR NOT.
  5. USING YOUR GIFT IN FAITH CAUSES THE GIFT TO COME TO ITS MOST POWERFUL MANIFESTATION.

IF YOU ARE FASTING AND PRAYING WITH US, HOW IS THE FAST GOING? WHAT ARE YOU HEARING FROM GOD IN YOUR PRAYER TIMES?

2021 Home Photo Challenge 1-13-21

The Home Photo Challenge was fun for me last year. Since I do not think much is going to be changing for me in the way of travel this year, I am going to continue the challenge for myself into 2021. This year I am going to add a little twist. I will give a brief description of each photo I take and write a Haiku to go along with it.

IF YOU WANT TO JOIN IN THE FUN.JUST TAKE A PHOTO IN OR AROUND YOUR HOME AND WRITE YOUR OWN BLOG AND POST THE LINK IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW IT.

The morning sun filtering through winter dust on my kitchen window

The sun shines through dust,

Reminds me dirt is redeemed

When light filters through.

Reaching

Yesterday was a very busy DLT day. If you don’t know what a DLT day is you can discover it by clicking HERE.

Our church has entered day 4 of it season of fasting and prayer. God has given us a very concrete direction for prayer. This week we are focusing on:

DAY 1- KNOWING JESUS AND MAKING HIM KNOWN

DAY 2- DOING LIFE TOGETHER

DAY 3- REACHING THE LOST

DAY 4- SENDING THE FOUND

DAY 5- DISCOVERING OUR GIFTS

DAY 6- CHANGING THE WORLD

Here is yesterday’s video post on Reaching the Lost.

What the Lord has shown us is that Reaching the lost in our community is going to be done through Doing Life Together with people who have not yet made a connection with Jesus. That is: breaking bread together, sharing Scripture with, praying with, and mutually meeting needs with folks who have not yet made a decision to trust Jesus Christ as God.