Boise/pastorsTomandPaul/shopping

Sun 3 Sep,
We went to church at Friendship Celebration Church in Meridian to the early service at 8:15am. Pastor Tom Hausch gave the sermon 'How to invest your life' based on Matt 25:14-30. Wasting, spending or investing? the part that struck me was 'it's wrong to bury what God gave you, what matters is trying; make life count, risk, make impact-passivity does not please God'
They have a worship team, that is singers and a pianist and guitarist and vioninist to lead the hymns. They were all contempory style songs. The whole service was projected on to the wall and they had microphones for all the instruments and singers. They use a 24 channel Mackie mixer. It was very impressive. There were probably about 70 people at the service.

Afterwards we went to see Rev Paul Riedel and his wife Lydia in Nampa. He used to be pastor at Zion Ashton. We shared updates on our new mission church and how we happened to break away from Zion. They now go to a Mo Synod church in Nampa. They have had a big loss in members because of a pastor there who dipped into the church money and didn't repay. He apparently was a power freak and he ruined the whole church. It was interesting to talk with pastor Paul, a very wise man.

The rest of Sunday was spent shopping the malls for bargains it being a labor day weekend everyone was having sales with some huge mark downs. Bonnie got some nice clothes and material.
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