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 [...]
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Mosquitoes, oh my!
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 here.
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 [...]
Happy New Year!
Wait. What? Happy new year! ... new church year, that is. It's the season of Advent in the church. The season of the color blue and the season of waiting. Anticipation. Expection. We wait for Jesus' birth in a lowly manger. We wait to hear the angel's proclamation, for the star's appearance, and to hear of the [...]
52!
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 [...]
If you give a child a Bible …
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 [...]
What’s a cubit?
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 [...]
Fall Festival
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 [...]
October? Really?
It's already October. October 10th to be exactly. The leaves are falling and there are pumpkin bars appearing at church events. Autumn is in the air ... even if it's not in the temperatures. [It's been a crazy 80 degrees lately!] October at Red Oak Grove means confirmation is beginning. A fall festival to hang [...]
New beginnings.
I'll fess up right away - I'm new to Red Oak Grove. Not only that - I'm new to full-time solo ministry! There are lots of new beginnings. Beginnings come with excitement, anxiousness, and deep anticipation. It's fall at the church. A new year of children's education on Sunday morning. Confirmation for middle school youth [...]
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