Wes and Hope kicked off the Christmas season with a couple Rudolf noses. These are handy in thick fog. We have never lost a child in thick fog who was wearing one of these noses.

The other day we were visited by a couple young men who claimed to be with the Flint Duct Company. They looked a little suspicious. Holly alertly called me to the front desk. I met them and asked them who sent them. They gave me a name I didn’t recognize. I said, “Have him call me. I didn’t ask for anyone to look at the ducts.”

It’s an unseasonably warm blustery night. We just got in from evening church. It was a good day. The little church is full every Sunday. Over two hundred are attending. Well, it’s Thanksgiving week, one of my favorite weeks of the year. Holly just got in with the rest of the Eternal Vision Development Team. They had been visiting the Ruth Stewart’s family in Canada this weekend. Ruth is the coordinator of the Eternal Vision program.

I could not wait until Monday to give you the good news that our Eternal Vision Ministry Team website is now on-line. You can check it out by clicking the link here:
http://students.iblp.org/eternalvision
The brochure is available for download as well as an on-line application link. Let me know if you have any questions. I would love to hear from you.
Of course you can e-mail me directly at ken@kenpierpont.com

Here is the definition of a mixed blessing… We have a new Krispy Kreme store in our town… Daniel has been there. Check out the photo…

Some of you have never seen our “home” We live on the sixth floor of this building in a nice suite of rooms. Very spacious. Very tidy. No lawn to mow. Let us know if you ever want to come and visit.

When we were in Knoxville this summer we bumped into Doug Phillips. We were both speaking in the same building. When I told him I was a regular reader of his weblog he immediately took a picture of the family and posted it to his weblog… Here is the photo.

Sitting in my study one day about sixteen years ago talking with Dorothy Hall as I often did. She had a story to tell. I think if she hadn’t told me the story would have died with her. She was the custodian of the church. I was the pastor. I loved to talk with her. She tended the flowers around the church, kept the place clean and kept me informed about things a young pastor needed to know. I was a newcomer. She had …

I ran into a pastor friend in a department store a few months ago on a Monday. Monday is a traditional day off for pastors. We had a good talk. Sometimes Mondays are refreshing for pastors. Sometimes they are difficult. He was up-beat and positive but I could tell he was a little discouraged with where the church was headed. He had been there eleven years and he was encountering a little opposition.

It’s November now. It is the month of Thanksgiving. Years ago while a student at Moody I sang with Moody Men’s Glee Club and the Oratorio Chorus. We presented Handel’s Messiah in late November just before we left for Thanksgiving weekend. It was without question a highlight of my life. Since then I have always listened to a recording of Messiah during the month of November. This is now a long-standing cherished family tradition. A few years ago I read an article on …