Church, and Maggie's outing

[celticdragonfly]

I took the girls to church this morning - we overslept by an hour but got there just as things were starting anyway. (My fault, I accidentally set the alarm for PM, not AM.) It went well. Alanna was more awake than usual, and I had to go into the cry room to nurse during the sermon. I love the cry room, that I can be right there and see and hear. Mary and Bruce, the kids' godparents, were there, which thrills Maggie so much.

After service, Maggie was bouncing up and down, jumping, in the lobby area. Our new Pastor Kerstin, in full robes, even the big green communion chasuble, started jumping up and down with her. This was just adorably cute.

Mary and Bruce were taking communion to some older church members again, the same people Maggie went along to see a couple of weeks back, so they took Maggie along again. I think it's just a lovely opportunity, a chance for her to spend time with them and help with a really good ministry, and hopefully encourage her to want to help others as she grows up. She had lunch with them too.

Mary gave me a baptism book for Alanna today, with pictures and descriptions of her baptism. It's really sweet. That will go into her faith chest with the other special mementos of the day.

Comments

[mawychick.livejournal.com]

Just because I'd find it a really funny coincidence...it's not Pr. Kirsten Springmeyer is it?

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Oh, what IS her last name?
/searches the Calvary website...

hm, they really should put her on the staff page now, since she's one of our pastors, and has been THE pastor running things this month.

Aha, Pastor Kerstin Hedlund. I misspelled her first name, oops, I'll go fix that now.

I invite you to come visit the church if you're ever in town - it's a very friendly caring good church, IMO.

[mawychick.livejournal.com]

What synod Lutheran are you? My boss is Missouri, and I'm ELCA. We have a lot of fun poking fun at the other, but I kinda urm...Loathe..the pastors at her church? ;) And I'm glad you don't have Springmeyer - she was a bad experience in pastoral care;)

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

I'm ELCA. My church is http://www.calvaryftw.org/

I got really confused when I came back to church-going, because when I was growing up it was ALS and ECA or something like that, and now they're unified into ELCA. Ironically the college church I was baptized at was a joint church for both, so was basically ELCA before there was an ELCA.

I found out recently that the parochial school I went to for a few years when I was quite young was Missouri Synod. But I am definitely ELCA.

Blended synods

[bkseiver.livejournal.com]

University Lutheran in E. Lansing, where you were baptized, was "ahead of its time". It was jointly sponsored by LCA and ALC. When we moved to Summit, NJ, St. John's was LCA. The only way I could remember which was that the women's thank offering was Love Compels Action (see, I still use that to distinguish! VBG!).

When we moved to BR, there was only Missouri Synod. Eventually the ALC began a mission church on Jones Creek, and I was the first organist. Now, all but the Missouri Synod have merged.

Oh, and Zachary has no Lutheran church. There is a Missouri Synod in Clinton (no thank you!). We are enjoying the Episcopal church here. (Full pulpit fellowship with your synod.) I find it a better fit for me, as I am most comfortable in "high church". Dad is wistful about Lutheran, especially when they use that liturgical setting he loves.

Re: Blended synods

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Eventually the ALC began a mission church on Jones Creek

Oh, so that's how we ended up there! I hadn't realized that was a change in synod for us. I've been telling Maggie about how I used to be an acolyte, and maybe she will be one someday too.

I am fairly "high church" myself. Calvary's distinctly more high church than Christ the King, also ELCA, which I'd tried before. At least the traditional service is, which is what we go to. I believe Dad and I love the same liturgical setting, yes. Hopefully you two can visit occasionally again and come with us.

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

I'm inordinately fond of cry rooms myself. I wish movie theaters had them, as well as churches. I'd've seen quite a few more movies in theaters (and not coincidentally would've cheerfully dropped a great deal more money likewise)back in the day, if I could have had some assurance that I'd've actually gotten to SEE the majority of the movie.

(And for rather different, more-intolerant reasons, I rather wish there were similar "preteen/teen chatterbox rooms". But I don't see that one ever happening, alas.)

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

OH, I wish movie theaters had them. If they did, we would go ever so much more often! I wish I'd had that idea at hand when I was filling out that survey recently that included a question about what would make you more likely to go to movies.