Where In The Fourth Day Are We Anyway?

 

Having just returned from a trip to the mountains of NE Tennessee, my senses were teased by the evidence of Spring. Daffodils blooming, the fragrance of Star Magnolia filling the air and the apparent drab grays and browns of winter yielding to the buds of new life. This is one reason I am grateful for the Lenten season. Life springs forth all around us with the shocking call that we must prepare ourselves for what is coming, reflect on the place of hope via the road of suffering, and face the forces and temptations that come at us along the way. Lent calls us to the wakeful awareness that we are human, we are dust, and we are falling short, but that there is a story reaching beyond our lifetimes, beyond our deaths, and our shortcomings, speaking new life where death stings and tears flow.  

 

Jesus suddenly appeared in human history after 400 long years of silence. God had not spoken since the prophet Malachi. Yet in the middle of this cold dark winter Our Father had prepared a season of deliverance. A spring of redemption from the stain of sin and the ravages of a frustrated creation. Hope is the message of Easter.  New life for Old. The great exchange at Calvary has been made: all that I was He became and all that He is, I am!

 

So in our Fourth Day journey let us again "Acknowledge the Lord. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear, he will come to us like the spring rains that water the earth." [Hosea 6:3] As we see evidence of Spring we also see evidence of His preparation to return to the earth and once again establish His divine intentions as they were at creation. It is this magnificent hope we share and long to see become our reality.

 

Have a truly blessed Easter, DeColores,

Bill

 

 

All secuelas are at Piedmont Baptist Church unless otherwise noted

The Remaining 2011 Secuela dates are:   
  April 30   
August 13  
November 5 
December 17    

This is an unnecessary statement, since the responsibility of sponsors and other contributors of Palanca of any type is to take it to Send Off or to Serenade.  May we also take this opportunity to remind new Pescadores that individual Palanca is only allowed for team members.  Candidate Palanca must be in sufficient quantities for all Candidates.  This does not apply to a gift for a Candidate if it will go in the Sunday Bag.

 

 

Palanca Drop-Off At Send-Off

 

On Thursday evening at Send-Off, the ideal time to drop Palanca off is before the bus leaves and preferably prior to the start of Send-Off.  There will be Palanca Chas there to collect it.  After Send-Off, there is usually no one at the church to collect Palanca since the Palanca Chas usually race to the Camp of Colors as or just after the bus leaves.  There will not be a sign stating PALANCA HERE but the Chas are usually not hard to identify.  Just look for the bags of goodies!

 

We are asking one Palanca Cha to collect Palanca until the candidates are on the bus and the Community sings to them.  Once the bus leaves, the last Palanca Cha will leave for the campground.  There will be no one else to collect Palanca on Thursday evening.  

 

Also, there is no one designated to do a Palanca run from the Atlanta area to the Camp of Colors after Send-Off.  After Thursday evening,  please arrange to take it to the Camp or bring it to Serenade.