I'm going to another church next Sunday!

Now that I have your attention.. :-)

Yesterday, I was hanging around the Welcome Center between services. (Last week and this, I was the designated elder-on-call.) I noticed a man standing over near the door, so I went over to greet him. He smiled, shook his head a bit, and pointed to both ears. Ah. I understood. He is deaf. I smile, walked away, and came back with my prayer notebook. I opened it to a blank page and handed him a pen. I pointed to my name tag.

He wrote his name. I smiled, nodded, and shook his hand. Nice to meet you. He wrote further. "My church is in room 226." I looked surprised... incredulous. He wrote further. "My church is very small. Our pastor is deaf." Ah, I got it. "Maybe you can join us some time and meet our people?" I smiled and nodded. I pointed at the "elder" on my name tag and then wrote, "Not today. Communion."

So, next week I'm going to another church. It meets upstairs. It will be different. I suspect it will be like sitting in a church service in Ukraine w/o an interpreter at my elbow. But, I will understand the Scripture. And I am told the pastor uses PowerPoint with things written out. And I hope to see my new acquaintance, Michael, and perhaps I can invite him home for lunch. I'll just make sure we have a pad of paper and a pen so we can communicate. :-)

This is really neat. I knew about the Koreans. I knew about the Hispanics. But, I didn't know about this other church meeting within our church building.

Fred