Visitors

Yesterday as we were about the begin the 4:30 service, a group of people walked in and sat down to join us for the service. As I asked them questions, I found they were from Canada, down here for the 4 game series the Toronto Blue Jays had with the Twins. We get a lot of visitors like that, I still have been unable to get over the fact that something like 15 or 20 New York Yankees fans were at our Easter Sunday service for the series against the Twins this past year. It was amazing.

Anyway, Walter was very generous and played the organ for them and told them all about the greatness that is that instrument. It was tons of fun. They went on their way happy an dsatisfied and prepared for the rest of the week. That is one of the great things about Sunday's at the Garden, you just never know who is going to walk through those doors. It is quite fun, kind of like eating Jelly Belly's and wondering what flavor you'll get.

Be well,
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Anonymous said…
Vistors bring so many gifts to us -including new prespectives of all kinds. I tagged along with the 4:30 visitors for an unprecidented peak at the organ pipes. Earlier in the day another visitor pointed out a picture of herself as a child in one of the old photos on 2nd floor and told facinating stories of her involvement here. Our building holds multiple treasures that tell stories of our faith & community. If these walls could talk, how would they inform our faith? As we do talk with visitors our conversations bring both us and them to new insights - perhaps on our building...our community...our faith...and on God. We need those perspectives that it may take visitors help us see.
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