Pentecost and languages

The Spirit came and all these languages were being spoken. For worship I've asked several persons to say a scripture verse in a language other than English. Our Arabic speaker will be away this week. I did manage to enlist a Pennsylvania Dutch speaker.

Another thing you can do is emphasize the color red for Pentecost. Well, Zion sure has a red window. Perhaps we could all wear something red.

brown hymnal?

Walk through these door ten years ago, you were in "GC" territory. That's General Conference on the denominational time line.

My first boss ever was Vern Preheim, a GC-er who rose to headship of the denomination by the time of the merger. He was my boss at Mennonite Central Committee for three years.

So I thought I knew something about GC. One important thing Vern never clued me in on. The 1969 hymnal is the brown hymnal. At my home church it is the red hymnal.

How about we merge brown and red and come up with rust. Who wants to sing out of the rusty hymnal? See that nice blue sign in photo? We all agree that the new hymnal is blue.