Stand up! Sit down. Stand up! Sit down. Stand up! Sit down.

We had a good laugh last Sunday as our time of announcements unfolded into many rounds of standing up and quite a meaningful time of prayer! Kyle welcomed Stephanie Retzer to the stage to announce she was officially an elder! We stood and prayed! Then Kyle invited Mikaela up so we could say goodbye and pray for her as she moves to Ontario for school in Occupational Therapy. We stood and prayed! THEN Steve came up and had us stand again to pray for Kyle who was heading into surgery the next day. We stood and prayed! The rounds got a laugh but also, wow, so much richness in such a short time! This is the blessing of walking through life as a church family; we get to gather and pray to our Heavenly Father together for each other, through the ups and downs (literally ;)