March 23, 2008--Easter Sunday

Good morning! Happy Easter to everyone. It's still early in the morning, just after eight in the morning, but we've already been up for over three hours now. We went to a community sunrise service at the Baptist church this morning. There are (I think) five churches in this town, and they work together really well. I think there might be one Southern Baptist church that doesn't do things with the others, but the Baptist church, the Community church, the Methodist church, and our church have a minister's association and they get together and do community activities regularly.

Erick's part of the service was the reading of the resurrection scriptures. He looked good up there in his gray suit and purple tie. Actually, three out of four of the ministers there were wearing purple ties. Too bad the fourth one didn't get the memo.

It was a nice service and we got to meet a lot of people, and listen to some beautiful music.

At one point in the service, one of the fireman got a call and four men left to go out on a fire run. We paused in the middle of the sermon to pray for their safety. Two of them go to our church. I wonder if they will be back for any of the other services today.

We aren't going anywhere for Easter, since Erick is preaching both services today. I did make cherry cheesecakes for lunch, and we bought some chocolate rabbits for the kids. We still need to give those to them, but after all the candy they had yesterday from two Easter egg hunts (one at the church, one at the school) I keep wondering if maybe we should just keep them and eat them ourselves.