March 2021
Dear Friends of Rockwood,
Again, what a difference a year
can make!
We have found our Lord faithful through the
midst of fear and paranoia that has gripped a large part of our country.
We are not strong in the technological field, but with the use of
facebook and zoom we have been able to grow together in spite of varied
restrictions. The experts have demonstrated more than once that their
expertise is closer to guesswork than precision.
As the hymnist penned “My (our)
hope is built on nothing less, than Jesus blood and righteousness.
We dare not trust the sweetest frame, but
wholly lean on Jesus name.”
Jesus is our Solid Rock!
The hardest part of this past
year has been the scale of separation with friends and the loss of dear
loved ones.
I still think often of Jim and Carol and
Judy and Ricky and I am comforted in the remembrance of their faith.
I feel at times like they will return as
soon as all this kind of settles down and in a real sense they will,
when Jesus breaks the clouds in His return; so I pray for their families
and the difficulties they must face finding a closure in all of this.
Pundits will say life is full
of challenges and there are no guarantees, but we do have hope and the
sure word from scripture that the Lord will be with us always even to
the end of this age and like a good shepherd He will lead us even
through the valley of death and into the resurrection!
Speaking of the resurrection,
Easter is around the corner.
This year we are planning to have a full
array of services for Resurrection Sunday.
We will have a Sunrise service beginning at
7am at Rockwood and follow that with a fellowship breakfast around 8am.
Our regular morning services will remain
their usual times with Sunday School at 9:45am led by Jay Smith and our
morning worship at 10:45am.
For some of you who are able to come this
may be the first time you will see the renovations that we have done in
the sanctuary over a year ago.
There are a couple things to
share with you that are on the horizon as well.
We are planning another communion service
the week after Easter during our morning worship.
We would love to have you join us, but if
you are unable to do this in person we will try to get the elements to
you so you may also be able to join us on line.
We are also hoping to send a work team back
to Georgia this June as a part of our Georgia Missions Trip, if you have
interest please let Mike or Pete know.
Camp SuNaGo is July 26-31 and we are going
full speed with preparations.
At the present it does look like we will be
in the need of a few counselors, so pray with us please.
Stay strong in the Lord my brothers and sisters and
God Bless You All Real Good!
Pastor Pete
Pastor Charles “Pete” Patton
2425 Glencoe Rd, Wildwood, MO 63038
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