This week we celebrate the greatest day of the Christian faith.  Easter!  It is the day that we know that Christ was raised from the dead to ensure us eternal life.  It is more than a mere celebration for one day…it should be a celebration everyday.  Christ rose from the dead.

This Sunday we have a great day planned.  Special music, Worship, Illustrated Message and more.  You do not want to miss it.  Invite someone to church.

There are a few perks to being a pastor.  I was working late last night when Sonya got a text message from one of our church members.  It said, “Warm Chocolate cake right out of oven, can you come pick it up?”  At 8:30 last night we took a drive for the cake.  It pays to be a pastor.  The only bad part is, I have been on a DIEt.  Oh Well, I ate it.  After all I would hate to hurt feelings:)

We arrived back home about 3:15 this afternoon.  What a welcome sight!  We had a good visit with Sonya’s family and we enjoyed much rest while we were gone.  It is always good to get back home and back to work. 

We come back to a busy week at RFA.  This is Holy Week!  We are leading up to Easter next Sunday.  All week, we will be meeting together with the Rogers Ministerial Alliance from 12:15-12:45 for joint services at Oakley Chapel United Methodist Church.  I encourage you to take your lunch hour, if possible, and visit these services.  They will be serving a light lunch daily.

RFA will be conducting the service on Wednesday.  We will be providing for the lunch that day as well.  If you would like to help prepare the food, call the office on Monday and let us know.  The food will need to be at our church by 11:00am and we will take it to Oakley Chapel before the service.

We are glad to be back to Rogers.  We love Northwest Arkansas and often thank God for allowing us to serve in ministry here.  We love our church family and missed you very much while we were away.

The government takeover of healthcare, what next?  I am not going to say much here but this is only the beginning.  The cartoon below may be where we are headed.

On the second day of Spring, it was cold and snowy.  Since yesterday we have received about ten inches of snow.  It is beautiful outside but it did affect our crowd today.  Although we had a third of our people, the presence of the Lord was in our service.  If you were not able to make it today, the message is posted on our website.

This week we were able to take advantage of the warm weather and the time change (Longer days) and took a short hike at Hobbs Conservation Area.  The Van Winkle Trail is a short trail that features the old home site of Peter Van Winkle.  It is a neat bit of history as well as beautiful scenery.