The End

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Dear Friends and Readers,

It’s not just the end of my time at Lads to Leaders for this year,  I’m afraid it’s also the end of this blog.  I feel bad for just blurting it out like this, but the deadline for L2L Mass Media Stuff feels like a good time for me to wrap things up.

“Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be

the sign of... the end... ?”

 

---Matthew 5:24

 (taken way out of context, sorry,

but I could not resist).

I’ve been blogging for a whole year, and have LOVED it, but "all good things come to an end" and for Set My Mind as a blog, the end is now.

I am going to spend the five hours a month that I spent writing posts on my blog to write my sermon,  and practice my song leading skills for the big convention.  I am excited because it will be my first convention, and I have never preached a sermon to a bunch of adults, only kids in Home School Chapel on Thursdays. 

Thank you all so much for following my blog for however long you have read my stuff!  

As my Grandma always says, "May the LORD Bless you always!"

A soldier of Christ,

Blaine Chapman

 

Note:  If you would like to read the blog in the order that it was written, please start at the post written on 1/28/14 and select "Newer Post" after reading each post.

Be Subject to the Elders (I Peter 5:5)

We have some great Elders at our church! 

They lead us in our church.  They are put to certain tests and they have to do a lot of hard work and take care of everyone in the whole congregation. 

They are my friends. 

"Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” -I Peter 5:5

 Our Lads to Leaders kids had a dinner for them.   We all cooked, and did all of the preparing for the dinner.  It took all night Saturday, and then the Dinner was Sunday after services.




Some of the kids made meatballs.

Some of the girls made little garlic bread sticks.

 

As for me, I got to do the cucumber peeling and grating with a cheese grater. 



We made little slices of cucumbers for the salad. 

We set up fancy tables in the basement of the building. 

 It was not hard, but Mrs. Ashley wanted us to set the silverware perfectly. 

 

The napkins had to be placed on the table just so. 

Next, we made Desserts, which were little brownies put in cups, then made in layers of pumpkins and then brownies and pumpkin again.  Then at the top we put whip cream. 









 


We decorated the Tables with acorns and leaves and little pumpkins and pine cones to make it look like Autumn. 









 Last of all, we made salads for everyone.

Each kid had an assigned Elder and his wife to tend to.  I got Mr. Larry and his wife. 

He was fun because he talked a lot.   


 

 We talked about fishing, hunting, Arkansas, getting in our Boat, and just having plain fun.

All the kids served the Elders and their wives. 

Paul Yoder  and Miss Janet

Miss Jennifer and Darren Crowden

Miss Lori and Grant Deitch

Tim Williams and Miss Patti

Making Dessert

Making the Salad

I like having Elders because they can help me memorize verses, learn about the Bible,

 and they are fun to talk with. 

 

 

"So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ,

as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:

shepherd the flock of God that is among you,

exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly,

 as God would have you; not for shameful gain,

but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge,

 but being examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd appears,

you will receive the unfading crown of glory."

I Peter 5:1-4