[Redleg Duke]

We left the ELCA in September. Totally fed up with their liberal and antisemetic crap. Joined a LCMS church in Ashburn with the intention of transferring to the mission church being established in Leesburg. We are now active and loving every minute of it! I got shanghied onto the launch committee and at the first meeting I attended last night, the Vicar announced that our constitution had been approved by district and effective 1 January 2006, we would become not a mission, but a full-fledged congregation!

We had our first service last Sunday at the elementary school where we will be meeting until our Early Childhood Learning Center is built. It was special and what made it really that way was the number of familiar, smiling faces from our old church.

I made an altar cross out of myrtle wood for the new church. For our first few services, the altar will be the Duchess' cutting table and the altar cloth a table cloth that belonged to her late Grandmother. I have designed a portable altar for us and the design was approved, so that is my Christmas project.

Life is good and God comes to all of us in the most interesting of ways!

[MozartLover]

"I made an altar cross out of myrtle wood for the new church. For our first few services, the altar will be the Duchess' cutting table and the altar cloth a table cloth that belonged to her late Grandmother. "

Oh, that is just so cool. How wonderful!