First sunday

Today we went to help at Brighton. We were not as late as last month. This was a big Advent service. We sang Christmas songs and SJ read a scripture from Isaiah. I let DW help with communion. We had a super big crowd. I was hard from everyone to get out when it was over with all the wheelchairs packed together.

I scrapped the sermon on Romans 6 and instead read John 1, the prologue. I spoke on Jesus coming again as well. We remember his birth and we await his coming again. I got up around 9:50 and we usually finish up by 10. And after I finished NJ got up and did a pastor's part speaking to their specific needs. It is so great to see her wrap up the service. I am the guest, she and SJ are the leaders of the service.

I got to Vineyard and found I was given a month off from serving communion. The servers this week looked pretty different. It was great. Usually I serve communion twice in the morning. Today I did not serve at all.

In the afternoon I checked out the new fruit tree to pick. It is different than a satsuma. It might be called a sour orange tree. Turned out the shipping company where the tree is found was actually open today. What are they doing open on Sunday? Anyway the owner, a small Oriental guy, came over to look at me through the fence. I asked if he wanted the fruit and he said no go ahead and pick them. After that I was ignored. He did admire my technique. Yeah I'm great, heh.

I had DW take some of these as well to church for LW. They loved the satsumas, not so much the sour oranges. The oranges look prettier. Maybe they will sweeten up off the tree. We shall see.

Evening service was fun as usual. Rocky and I held down the bass section without benefit of a section leader. That should be a vote of confidence. But I am worried about my performance. I always worry. I could use reassurance. But I got to man up. I do my best. As long as they keep letting me sing, that's all I can do.