"We had a great Palm Weekend."
Looking back on this Palm Sunday there were a few stories worth sharing.
First is that the baptismal fountain at our church was not heated up. We are such big babies in Southern California! I would imagine the water wasn't any colder than it would be if someone were baptized in the ocean or a lake. It is just the thought of an unheated baptismal that makes people here shudder in chills. I have heard of people in Russia and Ukraine that before the fall of the iron curtain had to go out into the woods at night and break the ice off the river before they were baptized. That is faith! People from our church did end up getting baptized that day and lived to tell the tale.
The second story from last year is from our Children's Ministry. We started having a Petting Zoo for the kids on Palm Sunday to encourage the kids and tell the story with animals of the donkey and the sheep to bring the bible to life. The petting zoos also have chickens and turtles etc. There was one chicken last year that was following around a goat. The goat kept wanting to lay down but the chicken was always underneath it so our volunteers had to keep moving the chicken out of the way. Eventually the goat and the chicken were away from the watch of the volunteers and the goat laid right on top of the chicken sending it to the great chicken coop in the sky and popping an egg right out of it!
Usually I have a life lesson or some spiritual application with my blogs. Today...well, try Proverbs 17:22.
Care to share a funny church story? What spiritual application or life lesson do you see here?
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