Phil, praise the Lord.  What a wonderful meeting.  Tell the unnamed
one to keep bringing the doughnuts.

earlier, Phil Scovell, wrote:
>Today our meeting was a little different and that's why I thought you might
>like to hear about it.
>
>We moved our start up time to 10:30 because people like to drink coffee, eat
>doughnuts when somebody who shall remain nameless brings them, and just
>general fellowship for awhile.  So, often we don't get start until 11
>o'clock or after.
>
>Today we sang a little longer than usual.  Maybe, I would say, about an hour
>but there was a reason.  We were enjoying it, quite honestly, but Sandy felt
>led, after she sang one of her favorite songs, to get one of John Ireland's,
>Vicki's husband, on the phone.  He lives in Tennessee and is in his
>eighties.  He was John's math teacher many years ago when John was in high
>school.  They are both stamp collectors.  Tommy is a wonderful man and I
>have spoken with him and you couldn't ask for a kinder person.  Tommy isn't
>well nor is his wife.  They have a daily care giver who comes over to assist
>them each day due to their poor health and age.  Tommy has been quite ill of
>late, too, and has been in and out of the hospital.
>
>When John got him on our telephone, we have unlimited long distance, he
>explained to Tommy the Vicki and Sandy had a song for him to hear.  Tommy
>has never met Sandy so it took a little explaining before he understood who
>she was.  John is used to working with the elderly, well, and Vicki, too, no
>she isn't the elderly John works with, but John and Vicki had a friend who
>passed away a few years ago by the name of Elvis who lived here in Denver.
>They looked after Elvis, another very Godly man if I ever saw one, until he
>passed away.  He didn't live with them but they continually called him and
>took him places and just kept track of him since he lived alone.
>
>Anyhow, as I was saying, we called Tommy today.  John put the cordless phone
>on speaker and Vicki played as Sandy sang.  Then Tommy talked to Sandy and
>Vicki and thanked them and then he talked to John briefly before we
>continued.  Vicki and Sandy both, without saying anything, felt they should
>call and sing to Tommy.
>
>Ralph, my son's Karate instructor I told you about and who recently became
>born again, came to church today, too.  He has been in a lot of phantom pain
>since both his legs were removed not many weeks ago.  He didn't get to sleep
>until 5 o'clock this morning and he hates taking pain medication of any
>kind.  He was quite miserable today as a result.  He was still here, though,
>and he stayed and ate lunch with us before Everett took him home.
>
>The focus Friday evening is on prayer and our focus on Sunday morning is
>worship.  I do teach a little each week but then we have an open discussion
>so others can share about the topic.  We still have three, and sometimes
>four, teenagers coming, too, whose parents don't attend church.
>
>Phil.
>
>
>Where there is pain, there is belief.  Real Truth is painless.
>www.SafePlaceFellowship.com

John