by Jim Welch | Aug 7, 2022 | Blog, Pastor's Blog
Lord willing, I am relaxing in Mammoth this morning. We will return to SoCal and probably leave a lot of fish still swimming in the lakes and streams. This morning I am offering a Back Page from the archives. It was written for June 8, 2008. The Pek family is still in...
by Jim Welch | Jul 31, 2022 | Blog, Pastor's Blog
I haven’t been so happy to experience the arrival of a delivery truck in a long time. A couple of weeks ago, the ice cream started getting soft in the freezer in the kitchen. Really? Pretty soon, the refrigerator itself began to show signs of global warming. We used...
by Jim Welch | Jul 24, 2022 | Blog, Pastor's Blog
This week I reshuffled the routine of the staff week, so I could head out to the desert on Wednesday to visit Team Tesoro in Thermal. I kidnapped Danny (my son) to join me on the grueling excursion to the desert and back. As we made our way past all those obtrusive...
by Jim Welch | Jul 18, 2022 | Blog, Pastor's Blog
It has been a gnarly week around here. The beach-themed VBS was amazing. Led by Pastor Andrew, the team has worked very hard to ride the wave. The beach theme got me reminiscing about my love of the beach. Growing up my family would camp down in Carlsbad for two weeks...
by Jim Welch | Jul 10, 2022 | Blog, Pastor's Blog
I usually wait for someone to pass until I write a Back Page about them, but I thought I’d modify tradition. Word came to me last Sunday that Nancy Wilson has terminal pancreatic cancer. Time is no longer measured in years but months if that. I have known Nancy ever...
by Jim Welch | Jul 3, 2022 | Blog, Pastor's Blog
Tomorrow, we celebrate the 246th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence; it’s the birthday of our nation. It is a red-letter day in the history of humanity if there is such a thing. This weekend we should celebrate our nation’s birth with great...
