The Gospel According to Matt

Sunday was an amazing and crazy day (which appears to have kicked off an amazing and crazy week)!

We made our transition from one worship service to two services–and the total attendance for the day was 303.  Several people, those who attended both services, were counted twice, but this is still a great jump from the 200-225 we had been consistently averaging in the weeks leading up to our transition.  Outside of a couple of strange moments and movements, everything went rather well.

Sunday afternoon a father and son (Jeff and Jeremy) were baptized in a ”roaring river” in Elwood.  That was a very exciting moment (for several reasons)—and we hope to have video prepared on Sunday for everyone to see.

Late Sunday afternoon, while riding his friend’s bike, my oldest Son fell and broke the thumb on his right hand.  Since he didn’t cry we thought it wasn’t a big deal, but when he couldn’t snap his jeans Monday  morning before school, we decided to take him to the doctor.  X-rays showed a break (which, strangely enough, is what our Son was hoping for) so they molded a hard-form around his thumb and the side of his hand and used a “soft-cast” to hold it in place.

Since the Doctor told our Son to keep the cast clean, he decided to wash it real good in the sink late Monday afternoon, which prompted another call to the Doctor who said we should dry it with a hair-dryer.  (Note: “soft-cast” is not an ace wrap/bandage, it is a cast that doesn’t completely harden.)

About 8pm on Monday he started complaining about the pain; and at 4am on Tuesday morning (when none of us had yet slept and he had been fussing for about 8 hours non-stop) We decided to cut the soft-cast off of his arm with Fiskars.

This morning we headed back to the doctor’s office at 8am and there discovered that the hard-mold didn’t have enough cotton and had burned a blister onto his hand (thus the Pain)  So they repaired the cast and we sent him back to school.

You won’t be surprised to learn that I’m doing my best not to fall asleep as lunchtime approaches…, and that the couch in my office (that Less and Lori gave me) is starting to look very tempting!

Meanwhile, I’m praising God for a successful launch of multiple worship services, grumbling about the broken thumb, and getting ready for Sunday when we launch “The Highway: A Church for Teens.”  I hope you’re week has been just as exciting as mine thus far!