In Need of Grace

We don't have quite the same scenario at our church this weekend, but... Thursday our Sr. Pastor's mom died. He and his family are now out of town with their family. This weekend our church is heavily involved in outreach during the Lumberjack Days celebration in the valley. Our pastor was scheduled to preach at the combined worship service (five evangelical valley churches)in Pioneer Park. His wife is in the music ministry at this service. Our associate pastor is running the pancake breakfast before the service. Our children's pastor is in charge of the parade float and puppet ministry which will perform on the float. She also heads up those who will walk the parade handing up small gifts. Because there will be no service at our church building this weekend they are moving the music section and installing a baptistry in that spot--the youth pastor's responsibility . To top it off our church is orchestrating a fund raising cruise on a riverboat on the St. Croix Sunday night. Our founding ex-pastor and his wife will be honored at this event. There is a shuttle that will take cruisers from our church to the boat and back. I think they can just hand off the dinner to the company who owns the boat but still there are details to attend to. All this when our pastor is gone due to his mom's death. Of course the pastoral staff will also go to the out of town funeral Monday am. No pressure on anyone. Please pray for them to have strength. Please pray for our Pastor and his family in their time of loss.