Parish Newsletter - July 2010

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Your Pastor's Ponderings

 

(Please read to the tune of “Camp Grenada” - original tune and lyrics by Alan Sherman)

Hello Samuels, Hello Messi-ah
Here I am at Sequano-ta
Camp is very entertaining
and they say I'll have some fun if it stops raining

I went hiking with Ann Ferry
She got bitten by a bear – eh
You know Laura Waltermi-er
She got food poisoning last night after dinner

All the campers hate the waiters
And the pool has aligators
and the director here wants no rivals
so he reads to us from something called the Bible

Hey I don't wanna be a fraidy pants
but our cabin's got some big ants.
You remember Angela Illar
her morning assemblies are a killer

Take me home, Oh St. Pauls; Messi-ah
Take me home from Sequanota
Don't leave me out by the large pavilion
where I might get burned from the hot sun
Take me home - I promise not to give long sermons
Or forget to put my robes on
Oh please don't make stay
I've been here but one whole day

Dearest Samuels, darling St. Pauls
How are my precious little worship halls
Let me come home if you miss me
I would even let Pastor George hug and kiss me
Wait a minute ... people singing
Girls are hiking, Guys are swimming
Slip and sliding, gee that's better
St. Paul's, Samuel's and Messiah, kindly disregard this letter.  

            Truthfully, having a good week here at Camp Sequanota learning about keeping the earth and teaching the kids things like how we are all made in God's image, how we can keep God's promise to care for all creation, how connecting to the vine of Jesus Christ gives us abundant life, how we are all part of God's creation choir and we each have a song to sing, and how we all are called to give a voice to the good news that God gives us in creation and in Jesus Christ by sharing with others. 
Gotta go, it's FOB time (flat on your backs) and the counselors are coming.  See ya soon. 

Pastor Will

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