God with His People

Monday nights are bursting at the seams with God’s incredible presence.  I am honored to work with such an amazing team, who long to see God’s people find love and peace.  We are seeing these signs of God’s redeeming love.

Yesterday, I was working with a gentleman who is staying out on the streets and he shared to me how God was speaking to him.  He attended a Monday night worship service and was intently watching and listening to the illustrated parable of the Prodigal Son that Pastor Karen was sharing to us.  In the reading as the father saw his son in the distance he ran towards him with arms extended open.  When the gentleman heard this, he felt God touch his shoulder and he started to weep.  He then continued to share to me that he has been struggling with addiction and longs so much to break free from this habit, but in the midst of the struggle still feels God’s love with him.

How powerful and precious is God’s presence and love with His people!

    

Blessings & Peace, 

     Mary Gunderson King

 

In the Garden with God

Yesterday I had the most wonderful opportunity to go out to the community garden, at the Orchard House, and work alongside the families who have garden spaces.  I was a bit apprehensive at first with the heat and humidity, but the gentle breeze that crossed the expanding field made the work so enjoyable.

Michael was proud to show all that was growing in the garden.  Lettuce, beets, radishes, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, and more.  He put me to work harvesting the lettuce and spinach for last evening's Trinity 6:34 meal.  As I bent down to gather with my bare hands the fresh greens I was reminded how often Christ went to a garden to pray...to find peace...to be with His Father.

It is written in Genesis that God walked through the Garden of Eden...did He walk alongside humanity as well?  Did He gather the harvest with Adam and Eve?  I feel as though God placed a special blessing on gardens, wherever they may be.  That we get to feel the very essence of His creation and His gift through the soil and the seeds...through the watering and the harvesting.

As summer knocks on our doors I pray that instead of retreating into our air conditioned lives that we would step outside...step into the garden...dig our hands in the soil...wait for the gentle breeze to enfold us...and just be with God in the garden.

 

“The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.”

A Quote by George Bernard Shaw

 

A "Word" from Trinity 6:34

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Message from Mario Shelby

A "Word" from Trinity 6:34

Monday, April 5th, 2010

Easter Message from Pastor Lloyd McCanna

http://thequietwon.is-a-geek.net/~mark/T634/Y010405_T634.mp3

4th of July Picnic

Thank you for the wonderful food, fellowship, and FUN!

June 2009 T.O.P Concert

Phase II Drum Circle

Edwards Band

Reeder Family Band

Max Honn

Back Creek Valley Boys

Craggy Island Band

Anthony Wells Experience Starship

A Day at the Garden...A Day at the Park

Saturday we had two teams working hard for Social Ministries. A group of folks were at the Orchard House laboring hard on the garden...

...and Carmen Winiarski and I spent most of the day at the Earth Day Festival in War Memorial Park, Martinsburg promoting the different projects of Social Ministries.

Skip Reader, team member of The Orchard Project, donated two huge piles of composted manure. Michael spread what he could over the garden with a tractor lent to us by Wes Dilly. The crew at the Orchard House spent most of Saturday morning shoveling up more of the composted manure to put over the garden.

We are continuously amazed at the commitment to help out with the garden. Skip's family and Ray are always right there to help, and Richard took two days in a row to lend his hands. Michael and I are so encouraged by the great support from everyone involved.

Over at the park, Carmen and I shared information and help raise funds for The Orchard Project.

For the In Sight project we displayed a painting done by Kirby Lewis on Mountaintop Removal and encouraged people to raise their voice to stop Mountaintop removal in West Virginia...amazingly enough there was another group, CARE North Mountain, who were just doing the same thing. North Mountain is in danger of being mined and the same thing that has happened to mountains in southern West Virginia can happen to ours.

We also had two empty canvases that the community could paint on. The themes were Broken Earth and Earth Renewed.

We were amazed at the artistic contributions from all ages!

Each person expressed things that harm the earth and things that help it.

Cars and hearts...

...flowers and tears were just a few of the things painted.

It was an incredible day!