Author: Lindsay

You know we've been all about mosquito nets and working towards helping our neighbors in Africa this month.  Yesterday we wrapped up our January focus on these life saving nets.  Through the Clarke Cares Foundation, every $10 would buy two nets which would then be matched by another foundation for a total of FOUR nets [...]

Last Sunday afternoon, Red Oak Grove hit the bowling alley in Hayfield for a couple hours of pizza, fellowship, and bowling! We had fun throwing bowling balls down the lanes, sometimes backwards and sometimes straight to the gutter. Rumor has it a bowling trip happened last year too.  Perhaps it will become an annual Sunday [...]

Uh oh. Even though it is winter, pesky mosquitoes have invaded Red Oak Grove – have you seen them hanging out in our building?  [Kids challenge: Count how many mosquitoes there are in the building and tell Pastor Lindsay your final answer.  Get the number right for a prize!]  The bad news is that the [...]

It's hard to believe it's the week of Christmas.  December has flown by at lightning speed and now we rush, rush, rush to put those last holiday presents under the tree and the last decorating touches on our home.  Christmas plans are made.  Menus are planned. The children and youth of ROG shared the Christmas [...]

Here at Red Oak Grove, the ladies [and gents!] quilt for a series of Mondays in the fall, take a break for the winter, and then pick up again in the spring.  We have to leave space to stay safe in those pesky winter snowfalls!  On the Mondays that they meet, anywhere from ten to [...]

What might happen? At Red Oak Grove, we're about to find out.  This coming Sunday we're presenting the three year olds with story Bibles and the third graders with study Bibles.  [The confirmation students have received study Bibles too.]  Actually, I will present the Bible to the parents.  The parents will present the Bible to [...]

The confirmation students dug into the story of Noah this week. Make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.  This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty [...]

People of all ages - from young to not-as-young - met at Red Oak Grove on Sunday afternoon for a fall festival.  The event began with a scavenger hunt for families that led them from one place to another, all while decorating a gourd pumpkin as they went.  Next, we hopped on hay wagon racks [...]