Happy Memorial Day 2016!

This morning I enjoyed morning worship at the New Haven Cemetery with members of the three churches in our beautiful town of New Haven. All three pastors led the service and community members provided refreshments and handed out bulletins and music. This service each year is an example of why I love our town and its unity. The photo on today's blog is from last year since I forgot my camera but the feeling and thankfulness it evokes is the same. Last year I stood, this year, I enjoyed a seat along the fence. The message of thankfulness for our men and women who serve and have served rang true and the patriotic songs filled the air. A beautiful way to start the day.

Our church had a BBQ later for lunch so I was able to go home for a bit before returning to New Haven to celebrate with our church family specifically. Does your community prioritize getting together as a fellowship of believers? I hope so, I'd like to hear how your church, churches, or community come together as the church God encourages us to be.

Come, let us sing praise to the Lord!

    Let us shout praises to the Rock who saves us.
Come and worship him with songs of thanks
  For the Lord is a great God,
    the great King ruling over all the other “gods.”
 The deepest caves and the highest mountains belong to him.

The ocean is his—he created it.
    He made the dry land with his own hands.

Come, let us bow down and worship him!
    Let us kneel before the Lord who made us. 
He is our God,
    and we are the people he cares for,
    his sheep that walk by his side.
Psalm 95:1-7 ERVCome, let us sing praise to the Lord!
    Let us shout praises to the Rock who saves us.
2 Come and worship him with songs of thanks.[a]
    Let us sing happy songs of praise to him.
3 For the Lord is a great God,
    the great King ruling over all the other “gods.”
4 The deepest caves and the highest mountains belong to him.
5 The ocean is his—he created it.
    He made the dry land with his own hands.
6 Come, let us bow down and worship him!
    Let us kneel before the Lord who made us.
7 He is our God,
    and we are the people he cares for,
    his sheep that walk by his side.

Share how your community celebrates Memorial Day.